MOMBASA (Kenya), July 21: Kenyan police said on Friday they had arrested an Indian terror suspect based on intelligence from New Delhi but the man was refusing to cooperate with authorities.
Anti-terrorism police in the port city of Mombasa said they detained Abdul Karim Tunda, an alleged leader of the Lashkar-i-Taiba, after learning from Indian officials that he was in east Africa.
They said that they had flown him to Nairobi for interrogation.
“We received information from India that this man has been operating in Kenya and Tanzania,” a senior Mombasa police official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “He was moving in and outside the country under different names.”
Another official said Tunda was in possession of eight fake passports of different African countries and that the suspect had been surly and confrontational when detained.
“We are still interrogating him, but he is not cooperating,” the official said.
“We were directed to remove the man from the cell at 2am and he was flown to Nairobi,” said a senior police official, adding that foreign agents were involved in the interrogation.
Police initially said they had detained Tunda, one of India’s most wanted terror suspects, on Thursday in Mombasa, after trailing him from a small trading post along the Kenyan-Tanzanian border.
Each of the eight passports seized from him had a different name derived from those countries, including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
They said they would be turning him over to prosecutors for possible extradition to India.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua denied there was such an arrest.—AFP
