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...much store by reports that "suspects" have been held in connection with last week's embassy bombing. "They've made a broad sweep of people deemed 'suspicious' -- often simply because of their Arab origins -- but none of them have actually been arrested," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "They are, in official parlance, simply 'assisting the police with inquiries.' If the authorities had evidence linking them directly to the bombing, they would be likely to have arrested them by now." Mutiso reports that while investigators are making progress, solving the crime remains some...
NAIROBI: Investigators probing the U.S. embassy blast which killed 254 people last week will have to rely more on the painstaking search for forensic evidence than on "eyewitness" accounts. TIME reporter Clive Mutiso explains: "I arrived at the scene within moments of the blast and there was nothing there but death and destruction -- it's unlikely that any witnesses survived that bomb. But when I went back 90 minutes later, there were suddenly loads of 'eyewitnesses' -- none of them injured -- all telling anyone who'd listen exactly what happened...
...called "dubious characters" may even be motivated by the government's concern too nip in the bud any signs of Islamic militancy. "It appears the Tanzanians have had these people under surveillance for some time and are using the bombing as a pretext to arrest them," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. A Tanzanian official's statement that "we cannot say we have got somebody who is really responsible" but "we think we are doing well" underlines the grounds for skepticism. U.S. investigators continue to probe for the forensic evidence crucial to establishing a "fingerprint" modus operandi that could help identify...
Threats by Laurent Kabila's beleaguered government to strike against Rwanda have the taut tenor of songs of the doomed. "Kabila was brought to power by Tutsi soldiers from Rwanda and Burundi, and those same forces are now setting out to overthrow him," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "This time they shouldn't need longer than 12 weeks to reach Kinshasa...
...Reported by William Dowell/United Nations, Clive Mutiso/Khartoum and Douglas Waller/Washington