(International Business Times) Jacey Fortin - On Monday two suspects were convicted in Kenya of planning to set off explosions in several cities. Kenyan officials say they are members of the Quds Force, a covert arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). The shadowy group has changed its tactics over the past two years, morphing from a sophisticated intelligence agency that empowered other groups to do its bidding to a rather haphazard perpetrator of violent attacks in its own right. Several of its recent attempts have been at least partly foiled around the world, from Kenya to India to Thailand.
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