Kenya ‘at risk of terror attacks’

From Daily Nation

Kenya will face increasing danger of terror attacks in the coming year as “Islamic extremists” plot to hit US targets, President Barack Obama’s intelligence director warned last week.

“We judge the terrorist threat to US interests in East Africa, primarily from al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic extremists in Somalia and Kenya, will increase in the next year,” Dennis Blair, overseer of US spy agencies, told the Senate.

Al-Qaeda’s East Africa network is continuing to plan operations against American, European and local targets, Mr Blair added.

Of particular concern, he suggested, is the Somalia Islamist group al-Shabaab, branded by the US as a terrorist organisation.