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Article: AF FEA GEN Kenya Al Qaida Networking
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- January 9, 2004
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MATTHEW ROSENBERG, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-09-2004
Dateline: SIYU, Kenya
When Fazul Abdullah Mohammed showed up in this little fishing village, there was already a local soccer club _ and its name was al-Qaida.
Not content to join a team others had started, the alleged mastermind of two terrorist bombings in East Africa organized his own. Its name _ Kabul, like the capital of Afghanistan, where he allegedly trained with Osama bin Laden's real al-Qaida organization.
All along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, al-Qaida members have woven themselves into the fabric of the region's Islamic society.
Using money to buy the allegiance of poor Muslims or passing themselves off as simple ...