Alwaght- Kenyan security forces say they have arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists and foiled attacks in the capital Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa.
Kenya police chief Joseph Boinett said the two young men arrested were radicalized at a Mosque in poor neighborhood after which they got recruited into the ISIS network by a medical intern who was arrested in April for planning a major a biological attack using anthrax.
The police chief named the suspects as Kiguzo Mwangolo Mgutu and Abubakar Jillo Mohammed who were at the slum area of Kangemi in Nairobi on Tuesday.
Security forces also recovered various materials that were to be used to manufacture an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in their house.
The arrest of the two, police said, had foiled terror attacks with explosives and other weapons that were planned for Nairobi and Mombasa.
The two were planning retaliatory attacks using home-made explosives following the arrest of their recruiter last month
Police say two are among the authors of a document that has been circulating online purporting the establishment of ISIS Front East Africa in which they declared their allegiance to ISIS Takfiri terrorist group chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
The suspects had planned to escape the country and travel to Syria or Libya after carrying out their terror attacks in which they targeted innocent Kenyans using public service vehicles.
Several weeks ago Police in Kenya said they have busted a ring of medics who were linked to the Takfiri ISIS terrorist group and who were planning “large-scale” terrorist biological attacks in the country.
“The suspects were planning large-scale attacks akin to the Westgate Mall attack with the intention of killing innocent Kenyans,” he said, referring to a September 2013 attack on the shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi.
ISIS is mainly active in Iraq and Syria. 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 into Kenya. At least 20 Kenyan youths have reportedly traveled to Libya to join the Takfiri group.
