Then, after Shabaab and soldiers exchanged gunfire at the barracks, all four groups opened fire,” the book says. The Shabaab team converged, piled into the vehicles with the nuns, and raced back into Somalia. While abductions inside Kenya are few and far between, the account exposes the dark world of kidnappings and hostage negotiations. British and American intelligence reports indicated that Kahale Famau Khale alias Abdul Ghafur Ahmed, a Kenyan Somali al-Shabaab commander, had hinted the kidnapping Kenyans. So as to support the kidnappings, al-Shabaab is suspected to have spies composed of both Kenyans and Somali nationals operating in the country.

Source: Daily Nation April 14, 2019 07:52 UTC