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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Jul 27 2010 - 09:31:46 EDT
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July 27, 2010
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Police arrest woman over twin bombings
By Andrew Bagala (email the author)
Posted Tuesday, July 27 2010 at 00:00
*Kampala*
Police have arrested another suspect in connection to the July 11 bombings
in Lugogo and Kabalagala. An Eritrean woman is suspected to be a fiancée to
one of the alleged suicide bombers of Kyadondo Rugby Club is in police
custody. However, Police yesterday said they had zeroed in on 21 suspects in
the bombing that left over 76 people dead.
Security sources said they are holding 30 suspects on terrorism charges but
21 suspects are directly linked to July 11 bombings and al Shabaab
terrorists who carried out the attacks.
The police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, said the woman would help with
investigations. The arrest of the woman comes after the public gave leads to
the two males whose bodies weren’t claimed after the bombs. Police say the
arrest will also help them dig deeper in the underground works of the
terrorist groups. The new development means that suspects under custody have
reduced from 50 to 30.
Gen. Kayihura also said the remaining suspects in custody are linked to
other terrorist groups and they have been under the scrutiny of different
intelligence organs. Most of the 21 suspects were arrested in the eastern
part of the country and intelligence reports indicate that they have been
communicating using different electronic media.
Police say the suspects have provided “very useful” information that links
them to al Shabaab, a Somali militant group. Intelligence agencies also
suspect the group brought into the country more than six bombs.
“Ali Issa Ssenkumba told us that he brought six bombs. So far three went
off, one was found and the other two are yet to be found,” Gen. Kayihura
said. He said all international intelligence organisations that have talked
to Ssenkumba say his information about what he found in the terrorist camps
in Somalia correlates with what they had gathered before.
However Mr Jamil Kiyemba, who was earlier linked to the Al-Qaeda, was
released. Police said he wasn’t connected to any terrorist attacks and was
only summoned after false press reports that he was linked to the recent
attacks.
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