Alwaght- Kenyan security forces have arrested a medical linked with the ISIS Terrorist group plotting attacks similar to one in 2013 on the Westgate shopping mall that killed at least 67 people in Nairobi.
In a statement, Kenyan police said Muhammed Abdi Ali was arrested on Friday as a suspected member of an east African terrorist cell linked to ISIS .
Ali worked as a medical intern at a hospital in eastern Kenya before his arrest and also studied at a university in neighboring Uganda, the police statement said.
"Ali has been engaged in the active radicalization, recruitment of university students and other Kenyan youth into terrorism networks," it said.
His terrorist cell was also planning "large-scale attacks akin to" the Westgate Mall, the statement said, and Ali's network included medical experts who were plotting a biological attack in Kenya using anthrax.
The police statement said two suspected accomplices of Ali - Nuseiba Muhammed Haji, who is also his wife, and Fatuma Muhammed Hanshi - had been arrested in neighboring Uganda.
Kenya police did not say whether Ali's group had links to al Shabaab. .ISIS is mainly active in Iraq and Syria and it has also established a presence in Libya, where it has seized the northern city of Sirte, and is feared to be trying to make inroads in East African countries especially Kenya. At least 20 Kenyan youths have reportedly traveled to Libya to join the Takfiri group.
Early January Police in the tiny East African state of Rwanda arrested several people suspected of being affiliated to the ISIS Takfiri group, less than a week after the police killed a preacher accused of encouraging youths to join the notorious group.
Unconfirmed reports also indicate that al-Shabab factions in Somalia have shifted allegiance from al-Qaeda Takfiri group to ISIS Takfiri terrorist group.
