OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dar es Salaam | Friday 11.30PM.
TANZANIA has expelled five Iraqis and a Libyan who were questioned by the FBI and police in connection of the bombing of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last month, a newspaper reported Friday.
Immigration officials put Libyan Atif Issa Enhamed on a flight to an undisclosed Middle East destination, Uhuru (Freedom), a Swahili newspaper owned by the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party reported. Five Iraqis, whose names were not disclosed, also were deported.
Tanzania’s criminal investigation and immigration departments could not be reached for comment.
However a picture is beginning to emerge of the how the bombings, in which 258 people died and more than 5000 were injured, were set up.
Media reports in Tanzania have said the ingredients for the bombs originated in the Middle East and were transferred by sea via the Comores Islands to Tanzania.
Reports in Kenya said the components of the bomb that exploded in Nairobi were transported by road from Tanzania to Kenya.
On September 2, 20 FBI agents entered the Comores, raided two homes and searched for a suspect identified as Abdallah Mohammed Fadhul, a Comorian Muslim who had lived with his wife in Sudan until shortly after the bombings.
Two key suspects in the Kenya bombing have been handed over to the United States for trial. American authorities allege the attacks were plotted by renegade Saudi businessman Osama bin Laden.