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...symbolism was impossible to ignore. Last Tuesday, Sept. 8, the chief of the Kenyan police - tainted by accusations that since he took charge, around the time of Kenya's presidential election in 2007, his men had waged a campaign of illegal killings - was fired and put in charge of the postal service. His deputy, meanwhile, was quite literally put out to pasture, with a new job at the Ministry of Livestock...
...Could this be the first cannon shot in the Kenyan government's long-promised war against corruption and impunity in the police force? Is President Mwai Kibaki finally bowing to pressure from foreign governments and U.N. envoys who have said the police must be held accountable for their actions during last year's postelection violence, when officers allegedly raped hundreds and killed a third of the 1,200 who died? (See pictures of the crisis in Kenya after the last election...
...accused of some of the worst abuses during the 2008 violence. Alston authored a scathing report saying he believes that the police orchestrated a campaign of extrajudicial killings before and during the fighting that followed the election. He says Ali was singularly unhelpful during his investigation and feels that Kenyan courts should investigate Ali for his role in the police force's actions at that time. If Kenya doesn't investigate Ali, Alston believes he should be taken before the International Criminal Court. Ali has vehemently denied Alston's accusations, saying there was no organized campaign of killings and that...
...Kenyan officials denied that Ali's move to the post office was anything but routine - "These are normal changes," said government spokesman Alfred Mutua. But Kibaki himself contradicted his spokesman in a statement released by his office on Wednesday, Sept. 15, when Iteere was sworn in: "President Kibaki expressed optimism that [the public] will support the new Commissioner of Police and the ongoing reforms in order to ensure that the police force is more efficient in addressing the country's security challenges...
...Somali branch of al-Qaeda never retired. On Nov. 26, 2002, al-Qaeda killed 15 people when, according to the FBI, gunmen led by Nabhan attacked the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and fired two missiles at an Israeli charter airliner in Kenyan airspace the same night (they missed). In 2003, staff at the new U.S. embassy in Nairobi evacuated for a week over reports that al-Qaeda wanted to level the building; there was also a never-executed plot to attack a U.S. military base in Djibouti in 2006. Bin Laden has released frequent video recordings urging...