{"id":25081,"date":"2016-05-04T01:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-police-foil-anthrax-attack-by-is-linked\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T01:59:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:59:02","slug":"kenya-police-foil-anthrax-attack-by-is-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-police-foil-anthrax-attack-by-is-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya police &#8216;foil anthrax attack&#8217; by &#8216;IS-linked group&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan police say they have foiled a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; biological attack using anthrax, by a terror group with links to so-called Islamic State (IS).}<\/p>\n<p>A man, his wife and another woman have been arrested. Rewards have been offered for two other men.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not name the network, but said it stretches across the country and outside its borders, including to Somalia, Libya and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate independent confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the police said Mohammed Abdi Ali, a medical intern at a Kenyan hospital, was in charge of a &#8220;terror network&#8230; planning large-scale attacks akin to the Westgate Mall attack&#8221; in which 67 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>They say he was also &#8220;engaged in the active radicalisation&#8221; of students and helped recruit Kenyans &#8220;to join terror groups in Libya and Syria&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement says Mr Ali&#8217;s network included medical experts who could help organise a biological attack using anthrax.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Nuseiba Mohammed Haji, a student, was also arrested, in Uganda, as was a friend, Fatuma Mohammed Hanshi.<\/p>\n<p>The police said accomplices of Mr Ali had gone in to hiding, including Ahmed Hish and Farah Dagane, who are medical interns.<\/p>\n<p>Police described them as &#8220;armed and dangerous&#8221; and offered two million Kenyan shillings (\u00a314,000; $20,000) for information leading to their apprehension.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12083 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89562250_kenyacomposite.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Abdi Ali, Nuseiba Mohammed Haji and Fatuma Mohammed Hanshi have been arrested\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan police say they have foiled a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; biological attack using anthrax, by a terror group with links to so-called Islamic State (IS).} A man, his wife and another woman have been arrested. Rewards have been offered for two other men. Police did not name the network, but said it stretches across the country and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}