Kenyan Police Publish Appearances of Two Premier Suspects of Terrorist Attacks

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Kenyan Police Publish Appearances of Two Premier Suspects of Terrorist Attacks

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The Kenyan police on Monday released the "appearances" drawn by computers of two premier suspects of the twin anti-Israel terrorist attacks, which occurredin late November in Mombasa, a coastal city of Kenya.

"We have developed some computer simulation of those images of appearance of the two suspects, which we are now intending to publish to your people for publication," said William Langat, deputy police commissioner of Kenya, at a news conference here.

At the same time, police also appealed to the public who see the pictures in the press and have information "to come forward and to give us information, that may lead to provide identification of the particular persons," according to Langat, who is leading a team of top Kenyan and Israeli investigators intothe twin terrorist attacks on the aircraft and a hotel.

Meanwhile, the police also provided a reward for those who giveclues for the arrest of either of the two suspects, who are now onthe run.

A reward of "500,000 Kenyan shillings" (about 6,250 US dollars)would be given to anyone who provide information "that may lead toarrest of true identification of one of the two suspects," Langat added.

So far, the police don't know their nationalities and personalities. They "happened to have been seen at one of the locations of the two incidents," Langat said.

According to Langat, the police believed "very strongly" that persons whose appearances are near to these ones would have been part of the terrorist group behind the attacks.

On Nov. 28, a missile attack took place toward an Israeli chartered plane, which was taking off from the Moi International Airport in Mombasa with 261 passengers and 10 crew members on board.

The two missiles, however, missed the aircraft, which later landed safely in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The attack coincided with a car bomb blast in an Israeli-owned hotel named Paradise, located in Mombasa on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, during which a total of 16 people were killed and about 80 others were injured.

Last Friday, police recovered the two missiles -- one exploded and the other not, which could provide vital clues in the investigation and hunt of the terrorists.

Currently, the Kenyan police are on high alert following the two attacks, with navy reinforcing the patrol along the coast of the east African country.

Meanwhile, police are also deployed across the country in the areas where foreign interests are located.

In August 1998, the US Embassy in Kenya was attacked by a bomb,which killed more than 200 people and wounded about 5,000 others. It has since been blamed on the Al-Qaeda network of Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden.

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