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| Briton held as Kenyan police raid 'al-Shabaab recruitment centre' | Briton held as Kenyan police raid 'al-Shabaab recruitment centre' |
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| Kenyan police arrested a British national and two Somali women in a raid on a house in an upmarket area of Nairobi which they suspect was being used as a recruitment base for the al-Shabaab militant group. | Kenyan police arrested a British national and two Somali women in a raid on a house in an upmarket area of Nairobi which they suspect was being used as a recruitment base for the al-Shabaab militant group. |
| Detectives surrounded the residence in the north of the city at 10.30am and took away the suspects in handcuffs. | Detectives surrounded the residence in the north of the city at 10.30am and took away the suspects in handcuffs. |
| Gigiri is the main diplomatic quarter in Nairobi and is home to several western embassies and the United Nations headquarters in the capital. | Gigiri is the main diplomatic quarter in Nairobi and is home to several western embassies and the United Nations headquarters in the capital. |
| Local media reported that police confiscated what they described as “training literature and books” that they said may have been used to aid recruitment efforts. | Local media reported that police confiscated what they described as “training literature and books” that they said may have been used to aid recruitment efforts. |
| A security guard said the British national had lived at the compound for three years and detectives told reporters that he had travelled to Somalia on several occasions. | A security guard said the British national had lived at the compound for three years and detectives told reporters that he had travelled to Somalia on several occasions. |
| Kenyan troops have been battling an al-Shabaab insurgency in the south of Somalia for five years as part of a 22,000-strong African Union force seeking to uproot the group from its main strongholds. | Kenyan troops have been battling an al-Shabaab insurgency in the south of Somalia for five years as part of a 22,000-strong African Union force seeking to uproot the group from its main strongholds. |
| Al-Shabaab has fought back by staging several large-scale attacks in Kenya including the siege at the Westgate mall in September 2013 that left 71 dead – including four attackers – and a massacre at a university in Garissa last April. | Al-Shabaab has fought back by staging several large-scale attacks in Kenya including the siege at the Westgate mall in September 2013 that left 71 dead – including four attackers – and a massacre at a university in Garissa last April. |
| The militants have not managed to stage any major attacks in Kenya in recent months but on Thursday six non-Muslims were killed in an attack on the town of Mandera near the border with Somalia. |