* Terrorists responsible for a 2002 attack on Israelis in Kenya are living under protection in Somalia, experts told the U.S. Senate. Al Ittihad Al- Islami, the group with probable links to Al-Qaida that carried out a hotel bombing and an attempt to down an Israeli aircraft in November 2002, is based in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, experts said July 11 in testimony to the U.S. Senate’s Africa subcommittee.
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