There is a manhunt under way in Kenya for an al-Qaeda operative wanted for the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya aand Tanzania 10 years ago. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed allegedly evaded a police raid at the weekend in the coastal town of Malindi, where he was being hosted by friends. Earlier this year the suspect, who is from the Comoros Islands, survived a US missile attack on a hideout in Somalia.The United States has offered a reward of up to $5m (£2.5m) for his arrest. Three people arrested over the weekend - reportedly relatives of Mr Mohammed - pleaded not guilty on Monday to accusations they had harboured him. A judge ordered that they be held for four more days while prosecutors gather information. nd Tanzania 10 years ago. Meanwhile, the man who led the investigation into the Kenya bombing, Maj Marsden Madoka, has told the in an interview African Perspective programme that Kenyan intelligence passed on information to the US embassy ahead of the attack in 1998, but it was not acted on. The failure may have been due to a lack of communication between the embassy and US intelligence agencies, he said. More than 250 people were killed in the bomb attacks 10 years ago that Mr Mohammed allegedly planned.
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