Americans should stay away from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa due to an imminent threat of a terrorist attack, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi warned.
In a message dated Friday on its website, the embassy said all U.S. government travel to Mombasa is suspended until July 1 and U.S. government workers must leave popular tourist destinaion.
"Private citizens are not subject to the same restrictions but should consider this information in their travel planning," the embassy warned.
The warning comes days after police arrested two Iranians after seizing chemicals they suspected were going to be used to make explosives in Mombasa.
In Kenya's capital, Nairobi police on Saturday said that they recovered suspected bomb-making material, the second such discovery this week in the country, Reuters reported.
Anthony Kibuchi, Nairobi's police commander, said police had recovered a bag of what appeared to be detonators labeled "Magnum Buster. Danger explosives" in a city neighborhood.
"We are on hot pursuit of the suspects," Kibuchi told Reuters, saying police were looking for three people.
Also Saturday, two police officers were wounded in an explosion from an improvised device in the northeastern town of Mandera. Northeastern deputy police commander Philip Ndolo said a suspect had been arrested.
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"The two officers were hit and injured by an object. We believe it is an improvised explosive device," Ndolo told Reuters by telephone.
Mombasa, the capital Nairobi and other parts of Kenya have suffered a series of grenade attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia last year to pursue al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab insurgents it blames for a surge in violence and kidnappings threatening tourism in east Africa's biggest economy.
In the most recent attack in the country, a bomb exploded in a trading centre in the heart of Nairobi in late May, wounding more than 30 people. One person later died from injuries.
Gunmen also detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Mombasa in May, killing one person and wounding several others.
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Let the Iran bashing and conspiracy theories commence.
Of course everyone knows that Ahmadinejad is really the Alien commander of Allah's galactic armed forces. This is just the first salvo in a worldwide, reptoid enslavement spectacle. I thought you knew that, Seven of Sevens.
WMG-21: "First salvo"? Tongue in check? I don't think so. This is the continuation of steps the extreme Islamist truly believes. He has to kill all the "non-believers", control and tax the world. The continent of Africa is the next step. They will take over the majority of this Continent little by little over the the next 1,000 years if necessary. Islamism controls all of the northern half and most of the east. They are moving inland. This is their dogma.
Do you really want them to continue? They want to take over Israel and India too.
Iran is without a doubt a state sponsor of terrorism, if you can not see that then you are either blind, naive, or just plain stupid. The more they can stir up trouble, the more opportunities they have to push their version of Islam and a society governed by their perverted views of the laws of Islam as the solution to the people's troubles. History is full of those who have covertly caused problems so that they could gain power by coming in as the savior to fix the problems they themselves created.
WMG, where did you think that up? Did a little too much research on Xenu or something, and decided to get an Islam equivalent to the mothership going? Soz for anyone who had never heard of some of Scientologies rather, shall I say peculiar ideas before :o Though, and then again, in Team America (the movie), they had Kim Jong Ill as an alien who got upset because the Arabs started using the WMD without his order :o /rofl
As to Iran, it's a messed up and unfortunate situation. In 2009, the people of that country wanted something other then the Ayatollahs and their current government which also stole the elections to remain in power. They didn't get it, and the whole world also sees the price of what their dictator's in charge help to create... And in the interum, they'll help stir up trouble, help foster terror attacks, develop nukes, and if any of the youth's say all that much, they'll turn around and shoot em pretty much the same as they shot Nada in 2009...
Answer...sea team six
Gee, the big bad Iranians & Muslims are so bad... How about the wanton murder carried out by the Crusaders and all the foul things my Church, the Catholic Church, did in the name of Christianity? Guess that does not count for anything in a Christian Country.
I'm not sure I trust the Kenyan police who say "We are on hot pursuit of the suspects". Governments are too shady on that continent, and corruption is rampant.
@Eddie in Seattle: The crusades were a long time ago. I think the Catholic church has evolved since the last one.
Catholic Bishop's little helper arrested today for helping church coverup numerous rapes of little boys.......Yep still practing their catholic motto to "turn the other cheek!"
Then by all means TURN YOURS Starsailing! You claim you grew up on your knees in Confessional booth with the "Fathas".
No wonder YOU ARE AN APOSTATE NOW
Quit&Living............STALKER ............should be Banned for making false personal statements. STALKER
I stated a fact that catholic religion just had a member arrested.
Since apparently humor is lost on these boards, my comment was a direct reply to SevenSevens comment-- and was absolutely intended to be tongue in cheek. C'mon, reptoids???
White people have no reason to be anywhere on that continent ( that s right it s a continent not a country ).
When we were there we weren t welcomed,leave them to destroy each other...
I'm white and I have been in Mombasa. Folks seemed to like me. If not for my shining personality then for the money I spent that helped their economy. I met a bunch of nice folk there. They knew English so could communicate easy enough. They had a Hard Rock Cafe that was nice. Along with a lot of historic sites. Kenya is not an enemy state. So not sure why you would say you were not welcome there.
Keep spending your money there you ll be fine, for a while.
And how do you know so much about Kenya?
I say let all the blacks go back to the "MotherLand" they are so insolent and abusive. They are more racist than any other human. They think they are the only ones to have had a history of slavery... they won't even look into their real history to see it was their own people who sold them to the slave traders. When President Lincoln freed them here in the USA he should have put them all on boats and sent them "home". I say let that entire continent deal on its own with terrorist.
I have been there twice on mission trips. Felt very loved & accepted. Perhaps you were what's known as an 'ugly American'?
@Joy57111 First of all, wtf does your inane comment have to do with the topic of this article? Second of all it's funny that you would say "blacks are more racist than any other human" when you (i'm assuming you're white) and others like you that share the same moronic opinion, are always the first to leave racist comments.
I find it funny that most people talk about another country when they never been outside of US before. Plenty of people who are clueless about what they are talking about.
Like how they keep talking about communist and yet have no idea what it really means. As for my case, I have traveled to Vietnam (of course, I live there for 15 years), China, Korea, Japan, Germany, London, French, Turkey and Spain. Even with that amount of travel, I barely know about them at all.
Tell me how you guys become such an expert into another country without ever set foot there.
I say all whites should take their racist, we are better than anybody else a$$e$ back to Europe where they came from and give the Country back to it's true owners, the Native Americans. Had the Native Americans practiced Immigration control, they would not have faced the genocide inflicted upon them by a bunch of thieves & liars from Europe.. That's for YOU Joy 57111
Eddie in Seattle: Why are you bashing Christians, Catholics, and whites?
Cuong...the guys you are preaching to think Kenya is a town in Georgia! Famous for eating possum, hence the name derived from..."Kenya pass me another helping of possum?"
WMG - LOL. I'm watching that movie on SyFy - Original Saturday night movie. Oh no, tonight is Arachnoquake.
Anyway, they're just threatening to blow up stuff in Kenya to keep illegal alien birth documents from Donald Trump's special detectives. ;-)
Actually newsgirl, they heard you were planning to visit and play with all the brothas'. Maybe stay long enuf to be babys' mama for a few.
Newsgirl: So, this is just another 'birther' issue? Sheriff Joe needs to know ASAP.
BK...is your knowledge of brothas..from personal experience? Envy or fear of losing someone close to you to "Brothas?"
Explosives are an Islamic sacrament and blowing innocent people to bits while committing suicide is just a Muslim sacred ritual. Osama Bin Laden said it best when he said “We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two."
No it's an Islamic Fundamentalist tradition to commit suicide by strapping a bomb to your chest and blowing something up.
You can't label it as a Muslim sacrament otherwise you would have to label what Timothy McVey did in Oklahoma as a Christian Sacrament.
You need to read up on what is and what isn't otherwise posters here at MSNBC.com will laugh at you in our caves that we poke at you from.
Kannin:
That's the most ridiculous Western propaganda even published. More nonsense to stir up hate hysteria against Muslims.
Muslim love life as much as anyone else. Much has been attributed to what Osama bin Laden said or did without much proof. One thing is certain, Osama does not speak for all of the Muslims.
Whatever happen to independent thinking?
Then why are 99% of suicide bombers Muslim?
dwight, you bring christianity into the discussion when it is not mentioned in the article. Do you feel uncomfortable focusing on Islamic supremacist cult members who justify their terror based on words from the koran and hadiths? Tim McVeigh was a murderer with hatred towards the world and the government. He did not justify his actions by quoting from Jesus, did he?
Wallst...there is not "much proof" what the dog Osama did? Are you for real? You agree he is a filthy dog....right?
dwighthuth
No it's an Islamic Fundamentalist tradition to commit suicide by strapping a bomb to your chest and blowing something up.
And its an islamic tradition to hide those fundamentalists in their hospitals, mosques and schools so it makes them one and the same in my book.
Who's worse,the islamic fundamentalist or the regular islamic"innocent civilian" that hides them?
Timothy McVeigh was an agnostic. I'd provide the links but I'm sure you have them so you'll be able to read up on this. And since I don't live in a cave, I won't laugh at you.
Devout Muslims average at least an explosion a day. The ratio of Islamic inspired bombing to other terrorists inspired bombing is something like 1000 to 1. If every non-Muslim inspired bombing stopped tomorrow the world would not even notice a reduction in the violence. If every Muslim bombing stopped tomorrow we would think all the violence had ended, and for all practical purposes it would have.
Gary, please provide some reputable (i.e. not Fox) citations for your hyperbolic claims....oh, that's right, you can't.
Hoodie ------ Try staying informed. Read the newspapers around the world. Which group hijacked planes and flew them into building murdering thousands? Which group placed bombs on trains in England and Spain murdering and maiming hundreds of innocent people? Which group goes into weddings , restaurants, markets , houses of worship and detonates bombs killing thousands of innocents? Check out the websites where Muslims are shown decapitating humans ; then tell me where to find such sites showing other religions doing that. Tell us who decapitated Danny Pearl on tape?
Rather than deny reality , why don't you just defend their right to do it in the name of Jihad. That's what they do.
So Timothy McVeigh was Muslim?? Seems to me he loved explosives and blowing people, innocent people to bits!!!?? OH that's right, when some insane white guy commits a terrorist act, he is not a terrorist but a "freedom fighter" defending himself against the Big bad Government.. What BS!
Eddie in Seattle ---- Wrong , McVeigh was a terrorist murder of innocent human beings and deserved the execution he got. But , he wasn't following the example of Christ when he did it. Read about the example Muhammad set that Muslims are following today. Start with the Koran and the Sira. Hint, Muhammad murdered others and ordered his men to do so too.
Kannin...since you quote Bin Laden......Repubs put in place the same plan Bin Laden wrote about to take our country down.
14-15 republicans secretly met to pledge to vote against every bill that would help the economy recover. They pledged this saying they wanted him to be a one term president. They pledged to take the economy down just to destroy the presidents plans for recovery. Bin Laden wrote down the same plan and executed 911 to take the economy down to destroy the nation. These repubs, Ryan, Cantor, DeMint, and Gingrich pledged to act like the Taliban,to act like the insurgents do,(their own actual words) to prevent President Obama from a second term. Acting like the supreme terrorist of all time Bin Laden. Traitors. Deliberately sabotaging the recovery. Ref Richard draper new book.
Well, it looks like I need to provide links after all.
http://www.tektonics.org/guest/mcveigh.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/if_timothy_mcveigh_had_been_a.html
McVeigh was not a Christian at the time of his terroristic act. But - and here is the difference - he was angry at the government. He did not commit this heinous crime in the name of any religion. This is the difference.
Now...maybe someone can answer a question for me...why is it when the subject is islamic terrorism, someone just has to bring up McVeigh which is a complete derail and his religious beliefs which, at the time of the bombing, he had none. Zero.
I don't know how many times I've posted info on his religious background along with many other posters. Additionally, even if McVeigh had erroneously committed this crime in the name of Christianity, how do you compare one act vs the thousands of terroristic acts committed in the name of islam on a regular basis world wide??? And please, before anyone decides to twist my words around, I do not condone what he did and feel that he deserved the death penalty so no tears for him on my end.
So...who wants to answer my question???
Obama going to go home and trash their economy and growth potential?
Just the mention of a pending visit (vacation) from the classless POS sends tremors thru the Homeland. And a tingle up Matthews scrotum.And maybe up newsgirls leg too.
I knew it wouldn't take long for some moron to make an Obama comment. Please seek help...maybe some Lithium or something.
Just another dumb, ignorant, uneducated, racist Birther huh?
Sail Naked...No Obama won't, but repubs do that same pledge as Bin Laden. 14-15 republicans secretly met to pledge to vote against every bill that would help the economy recover. They pledged this saying they wanted him to be a one term president. They pledged to take the economy down just to destroy the presidents plans for recovery. Bin Laden wrote down the same plan and executed 911 to take the economy down to destroy the nation. These repubs, Ryan, Cantor, DeMint, and Gingrich pledged to act like the Taliban,to act like the insurgents do,(their own actual words) to prevent President Obama from a second term. Acting like the supreme terrorist of all time Bin Laden. Traitors. Deliberately sabotaging the recovery. Ref Richard draper new book.
glad the US government is able to connect some dots... unlike the previous adminstration
Greg S ------ Both Bush and Obama mislead us by saying Islam is a peaceful religion. In view of the mountain of evidence that proves otherwise, this is an insult to our intelligence. We deserve more honest leaders.
Greg, this isn't about Islam, it's about extremist, radical, fundamentalists. Nearly every religion has them; like the "pro-life Christians" that assassinate doctors and blow up medical clinics that provide legal health services to women, and NO, I'm not bashing Christians, it's just an example to make the point.
Hoodie ---- the number of doctors assassinated by murders who should be executed can be counted on your hands with fingers left over. The number of innocents murdered by Muslims acting in accordance with their faith would require a computer to tabulate and it has to be working 24 hours a day to keep up with the running total.
There are multiple sites on-line that keep a record of Islamic terror attacks reported in the world wide media. If you can't find them get some help with your computer.
Better get Obama's birth certificate out of there.
Better get an education, and learn how to read and think for yourself cgr. You're totaly off topic, not to mention imbecilic and childish..
Is this the USA "security agencies" waving its hands, and pointing "over there" to distract their own people from the threats at home? Pre-election shows of "Look people we are doing our jobs well protecting the millions of Americans who travel to Kenya daily," while the millions at risk at home enjoy the "rights and freedoms" guaranteed by their constitution?
Next - -
"Private citizens are not subject to the same restrictions but should consider this information in their travel planning," the embassy warned.
Unless you are from louisiana then just ignore these warnings like you do all other gov't warnings.
Ha!!!!!!!! That is hilarious! and true... And they even moved back to that hurricane magnet??
Terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists, christian fundamentalists are all full of @!$%#. They bark about the correctness of their God and shout for more blood from the infidels - which means of course the innocent slaughtering of more men,women and children. This is what they do. They have no shame, no basis in fact, no reason to kill as they do. The reward is a place next to their misquoted God. I wonder why the Koran does not have a paradise for females? Nothing mentioned in that book of sly deceptions and of course written by men. Seems as though the Bible is also written and edited by men. Trace the success of the Tribes of the panish in California. These were settlers of immense shame and immoral behaviors. The terrorists hide behind women and children and kill indiscriminately, each one seeking a merit badge from a God that loves to kill.
Behead all those bastards in public.
Kenya is one of our great allies on the front lines - with neighbors like Somalia. Hopefully this will end with a capture / kill of yet another bad guy team, like when the Phillipines knocked off Yousef and his airline bombing team.
Arab Muslim militant extremist terrorists will kill you if you don't support them and their beliefs ....
Africans have to join forces to push back really hard before the majority of Africa and Africans are killed off and consumed by those Arab Muslim militant extremist terrorists ....
Where's the concern from NATO on this one , that's been going on for years now ....
Cain't we all get along?
If you're a tourist and want to see underdeveloped and financially depressed areas with uneducated people who don't speak English, go to Detroit.
Or most of Texas and California.
Completely off topic, here's an old joke: "How do you spell uneducated?" "Mississippi." I truly pity the people of Miss.; their state ranks in the bottom ten of nearly all positive social and economic metrics.
Hoodie...repubs doing their best to defund all education across the U.S. to make Misssissippi equal to all other states, instead of trying to "lift up " the education programs in Mississippi.
It wouldn't surprise me if Obama ordered all the United States Military into Kenya!
Interesting comment. Would you like to see this administration commit to a full scale war in eastern Africa to combat the extreme Islamist. Or do you think this is another dumb thing Obama would do to start a war about. I'm trying to remember the first war Obama started....and yet the CIA has been in Kenya for 50 years or more. If this was a dig on Obama, please write more posts.
And it wouldn't surprise me if you walked into a brick wall or off a cliff or accidentally shot yourself in the head while cleaning your gun.
Kenya happens to be an important ally of the USA and is fighting terrorism in their own country, not a continent away, and they seem to be doing a reasonably good job of it. Apparently you missed the part of the article about the Kenyan military going into Somalia to fight al Shabaab, and all the rest of the article as well.
The fit has hit the shan.
Headline should read: "Obama threatens to move back to Kenya, terror suspected, expected as he intends to serve in a political office in his home country, where his father's family resides in between residing illegally in the United States!"
Get over it Darrell and give it a rest. You're just showing off your idiocy for all the world to see.
And here's a newsflash for you; President Obama is currently serving in a political office in his home country.
Wow...two birthers in the same blog....wow...look everybody....real live birthers.......cute!
Didn't say anything about birther crap, just said he was moving back to the place where his true "roots" are, Kenya, as his actions certianly aren't that of an American. Poor Hoodie and starsailing, just don't know a Marxist when they see one, let alone vote for one! A truer enemy of the United States, you'll only find in North Korea or the Muslim nations of the world, but what for, he's right here in the here and now, but gone in November thank god for that!
Terror threat in Kenya: When Obama loses the election he's going back home.
Sad news for you Count, President Obama isn't "going back home." He's already at home, right here in the USA where he was born.
If you think we've got problems now you better get down on your knees and pray that Mittens loses in November because you're not one of his friends and he's not interested in your problems, unless of course you're a big corporation, bank, or Wall Street scam artist. If you are, remember to vote for him twice.
Well, simple solution: our dear prez needs to take more of our tax dollars and "spread the wealth" a little bit more in Kenya.
The 1% sure have a problem with the 99% who want their money back from the rich who stole it by buying off repubs.
WEll,here comes the crazy conspiracy theories. Heres what we should take away from this story. The Kenyans are having problems with terrorists and are activly trying to fight it. In other words,it looks like the Kenyans are on our team. As such,we should help them becuase anyone who is activly fighting our enemies like that should know they can count on our help. In fact,people in Kenya seem to be very proud that someone they perceive as Kenyan is now the leader of the most powerfull nation on earth. We should be able to exploit that to get unheard of levels of co-operation from them on antiterroism efforts. In fact,this will probably translate other places in africa too. (Make no mistake,Obama is an American,he was born here,raised here and I have no doubt his loyalty is to America. However,hes also Kenyan in the same way that I am Polish. Im not going to live in Warsaw,but if I were president,I would certainly play up the "Polish" thing when dealing with Poland. If the president were of Ukranian descent,I would expect him to play that up when dealing with the Ukranians. It only makes sense. Its diplomacy. "Trust me,Im one of you guys,I wouldnt screw you over!" Diplomacy is all about building a sense of trust and getting the other guy to do what YOU want,but think it was HIS idea.
Examples of good diplomacy. In Yugoslavia,the United States wanted them to agree to end hostilities and allow western peace keeping forces in their country. The Russians had a lot of sway with Milosivic,their leader. Now,the Russians and the Yugoslavians did not want western forces there. The Russians brokered a deal where Russian peacekeepers would be allowed in the country. The NATO bombing was stopped,the Yugoslavians stood down and the Russians prepared to start sending peacekeepers. Before they could,NATO sent peacekeepers. That wasnt the deal. The Russians were very angry,but there was nothign anyone could do. Thats diplomacy in action. Say anything,get them to do what you want,make the reality on the ground you want,and now everyones stuck with it and you didnt have to fight the war. (well,we DID fight a war,but we didnt have to fight the ground war)
Gee.....It's not safe now.......
I was in Kenya, in that very city in 1982. I am glad that I went, as I now know that there is absolutely no reason for me to EVER go back there !
We were warned about Kenya weeks before we got there. We had to get special shots, and take pills before we got there, to prevent getting any funky diseases. We were also warned not to eat any fresh produce, including a salad. In fact, we were warned not to eat anything that was not thouroughly cooked, not even a rare steak.
We were told that the water was not safe to drink, an ice cube in your beverage could make you sick, and at the Holiday Inn, the staff told us ...." if a monkey comes out of a tree in the courtyard and steals your sandwich, let him have it.....we will give you another".
The country is dirt poor, unless you work for a corporation. The street vendors were trading wooden carvings with us for SOCKS for cryin' out loud !
So now the government tells me it is not safe to go there ?
Don't worry, Uncle Sam......I won't !!!!
Critical times hard to deal with, will be here.
At some point I would think that the Freedom loving Nations of the world would realize that if these Islamofacists aren't stopped, and stopped for good, this type of action will be visited on all the World! Of course that doesn't apply to Progressives. It requires a little bit more of an ability to exercise critical thinking than they seem capable of aquiring!