{Authorities in Kenya have charged four Somali nationals with aiding those who carried out September’s attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall that killed 67 people.}<\/p>\n
A court ordered the four men, Mohamed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah Omar, Hussein Hassan Mustafah, and Adan Dheq, imprisoned until a court hearing next week. None are accused of being the gunmen in the mall.<\/p>\n
Abdi, Omar and Mustafah were charged with knowingly supporting the attackers. They are also charged with entering Kenya illegally and obtaining false identification documents.<\/p>\n
Dheq was accused of harbouring a man authorities say is a senior leader of al-Shabab, which carried out the Westgate mall attack.<\/p>\n
The four, who deny the charges against them, are due back in court on November 11.<\/p>\n
The charges had to be read to the defendants in Somali by a translator. The suspects, who had no lawyer, were remanded in custody for one week after the prosecution asked for time for further investigations.<\/p>\n
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The four gunmen who carried out the Westgate attack are understood to have died during the four-day siege.<\/p>\n
Interpol is assisting Kenya in trying to identify four bodies suspected to be the gunmen, police said last week.<\/p>\n
Detectives are continuing to investigate a possible link to Norway, with Ndegwa Muhoro, head of Kenya’s Police Criminal Investigation Department, saying that a telephone call was made to the country from the mall during the attack.<\/p>\n
A Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is suspected of planning the Westgate mall attack. <\/p>\n
Norway’s PST intelligence agency has said it has investigated the reports, but has declined to comment on his identity.
\nThe Somali group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack and in retaliation for Kenya’s deployment of troops in southern Somalia.<\/p>\n
Source: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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