Kenya police: 3 arrested trying to enter British Army camp
Kenyan police say they have arrested three men who
tried to force their way into a British Army training camp on the same day that
al-Shabab extremists attacked a military base and killed three U.S. military
personnel.
The internal police report seen by The Associated
Press says the three “terrorist suspects” were arrested Sunday after trying to
enter the British Army Training Unit in Laikipia county. It occurred around the
same time as the al-Shabab assault on the base in Lamu county.
The British government was not immediately available
for comment.
The U.S. Africa Command told the AP on Monday that
five U.S. aircraft were destroyed and one damaged in Al-Shabab’s hours-long
assault at the Manda Bay Airfield. The aircraft were a combination of
fixed-wing and rotary, it said.
It was the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab’s first attack
against U.S. forces inside Kenya, where the extremists have carried out
multiple deadly attacks against civilian targets including buses, schools and
shopping malls.
U.S. Africa Command said it would not comment on
questions about any changes to its presence or security measures. The airfield
is adjacent to Camp Simba, a key Kenyan military base used by U.S.
counterterror forces.
No Kenyans died in the attack, Kenya’s military
spokesman Paul Njuguna said Monday.
Al-Shabab has vowed retribution on Kenya for its
troop presence in neighboring Somalia to counter the extremist group.
