"'Serious'
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said UK government officials
have said "a serious and credible terrorist plot" was disrupted in Kenya. He
added that the targets were most likely to have been Western.
He said one of the people arrested was a British national.
The BBC's world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley said the Foreign
Office's update followed a warning, two days ago, from Kenyan police that
al-Shabab in Somalia had teamed up with al-Qaeda to plan attacks.
A team of British counter-terrorist officials have also recently returned
from Kenya, she added.
The Kenyan authorities have increased security in Nairobi.
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, said Kenya, and in particular
Nairobi, had an awful history of terrorist attacks, and there was a "very, very
strong fear about al-Shabab".
In 1998, 200 people died in an attack on the US embassy in Nairobi, and in
2002, there was an attack on a hotel used by Israeli tourists in Mombasa.
Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October after a string of kidnappings and
cross-border attacks which had threatened Kenya's tourism industry." (bbc.co.uk; 7/1/2012)
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said UK government officials
have said "a serious and credible terrorist plot" was disrupted in Kenya. He
added that the targets were most likely to have been Western.
He said one of the people arrested was a British national.
The BBC's world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley said the Foreign
Office's update followed a warning, two days ago, from Kenyan police that
al-Shabab in Somalia had teamed up with al-Qaeda to plan attacks.
A team of British counter-terrorist officials have also recently returned
from Kenya, she added.
The Kenyan authorities have increased security in Nairobi.
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, said Kenya, and in particular
Nairobi, had an awful history of terrorist attacks, and there was a "very, very
strong fear about al-Shabab".
In 1998, 200 people died in an attack on the US embassy in Nairobi, and in
2002, there was an attack on a hotel used by Israeli tourists in Mombasa.
Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October after a string of kidnappings and
cross-border attacks which had threatened Kenya's tourism industry." (bbc.co.uk; 7/1/2012)
