Word: kenyans
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...find Ocalan a haven, and on Feb. 2, he headed to Nairobi. "The understanding was that Kenya was just a temporary solution of two or three days," says Failos Kranidiotis, the guerrilla's Greek lawyer. After that, Ocalan was expected to move permanently to another African state. According to Kenyan officials, his unmarked jet landed in Nairobi at 11:33 p.m. Kenyan authorities say Greek Ambassador George Costoulas met the plane and whisked its passengers past immigration controls...
...next day, Kenyan officials appeared at the residence and demanded Ocalan's departure. When the ambassador called Athens for instructions, the response was blunt: "Boot him out," said Pangalos. By nightfall, after a final telephone call from Pangalos, Ocalan had agreed to leave on the understanding that he would be transported to the Netherlands under Greek protection...
...Kenyans were furious at the insinuation that they'd sold out Ocalan, especially since they are wary of being drawn into any international conflict after last year's devastating bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Dr. Bonaya Godana, Kenya's foreign minister, said his government didn't know Ocalan was even in the country and ordered his removal as soon as it found out. Insisting that Kenyan security personnel would not have violated the diplomatic immunity of the compound, Dr. Godana claimed the Greeks had escorted Ocalan to the airport and flown him out of the country...
...accounts leaves ample room for a covert operation. Eyewitness accounts cited by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, the Associated Press and Ocalan's German attorneys suggest that Ocalan was lured or dragged out of the embassy compound by men who were -- or were at least believed to be -- Kenyan security officials...
...Israel also has a close relationship with the Kenyan authorities, and a history of operating in the region. Kenya was used as a staging ground for Israel's spectacular 1977 rescue of hijack hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport, and later also for its emergency airlift of Ethiopian Jews. Israeli personnel took charge of rescue operations in Nairobi following the U.S. embassy bombing last July...