Nairobi Court Finds 2 Men Guilty of Aiding Al-Shabab Militants In 2019 Hotel Attack – ryan
Nairobi, Kenya – Two Kenyan Men Charged with Facilitating The 2019 Attack On A Luxury Hotel Complex That Left 21 People Dead Were Found Guilty On Thursday and Will Be Senttenced Next Month.
JUDGE Diana Kavedza, while sitting a counya’s Capital, Nairobi, Ruled that the Prosecution Hadd that Hussein Mohamed Abdille Ali and Mohamed Ali Sent Money and Helped Acques Fake Documents for the militants who died the duesd2 hotel.
Al-Qaida-Linked Militant Group Al-Shabab Claimed Responsibility for the Attack, Which Occurred Six Years AFTER 67 People Were Killed at Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall and four years after 147 students died at Garissa University in the North of the Country.
Based in Neighboring Somalia, al-Shabab have vowed retribution against Kenya for Sending Troops to Somalia to Fight It Since 2011, and Continue to Stage Attacks in Somalia and Kenya.
KENYAN AUTHORITIES SAID ALL FIVE ATTACKERS DED DURING THE DUSSI ATTACK.
The Prosecution Presented 45 Witnesses During the Trial.
On Thursday, The Judge ORDERED A PROBATION REPORT TO BE PREPARED WITHIN 21 DYS AND SET SENTENCING FOR JUNE 19.
A Third Suspect, Good Abdulahi, Who Had Been Charged Alongside The Two Men Had Earlier Pleaded Guilty and Was Senttenced.
Foreign Nationals, Including An American and A Briton, Were Among Those Killed in the 2019 Attack.
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