Kenya police have arrested a man who they say was in charge of a “terror network” that was “planning large-scale attacks akin to the Westgate Mall attack” of September 2014 in which 67 people were killed.
In a statement, the police say that Mohammed Abdi Ali, a medical intern at a Kenyan hospital, was also part of a group planning to “unleash a biological attack… using anthrax”.
They say that he was also “engaged in the active radicalisation” of students and helped recruit Kenyans “to join terror groups in Libya and Syria”.
Mr Ali is said to be linked to the so-called Islamic State group.
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Source: BBC