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Kenya Terror Attacks Against Israeli Aircraft Planned from Somalia
(Financial Times-UK) - William Wallis Last year's terrorist attacks on a hotel and an Israeli aircraft in Kenya were planned and prepared under cover of a lobster-fishing operation in Somalia, according to a UN panel report that paints a disturbing picture of arms proliferation in the collapsed African state. The surface-to-air missiles deployed in a simultaneous and unsuccessful attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner were either "smuggled from Yemen directly by commercial arms dealers or transferred first to Eritrea and then to Somalia as part of an Eritrean government transfer to faction leader Hussein Aydiid." Four of the al-Qaeda team involved in the attack were thought to be still hiding in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.