Haruna:

Am with you 100%. I thought this would have been a hush-hush if the
news didn't blow up like it did. I mean Kenya would not have initiated
sending him to Jamaica via Gambia and Nigeria without making sure both
governments are OK with it. They gave their blessings but backed out
only after the whole thing blew up and State Department tightened the
screw on their balls (pardon my French). Kenya would not have cared to
arrest and deport Faisal if not for the invincible hand of the Obama
administration. Watch what Kenya does to appease America..... and
Yahya thought he is a bad-ass Ahmadenijadovic or el macho Hugolito!

-Laye

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Haruna Darboe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Laye,
>
> Yahya is lying through his refurbished teeth. he did indeed accept the Lunga
> Lunga guy. It is only after Gaddafi told him to deny he ever accepted him so
> that Kenya's options to deport the guy could be diminished to near zero that
> yahya flew the coop. Don't listen to him. He's lying.
>
> Haruna.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 12:08 am
> Subject: Fw: Kenya in fresh bid to deport Faisal
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/841680/-/view/printVersion/-/wgd0fxz/-/index.html
>
> News
> Kenya in fresh bid to deport Faisal
>
> By NATION Team Posted Wednesday, January 13 2010 at 21:17
>
> Jamaican preacher Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was on Wednesday moved
> from his remand cell to the airport as the government made a second
> attempt to deport him.
>
> The radical Islamic preacher was removed from the Industrial Area
> Remand Prison on Tuesday evening, Ms Pauline Ngari, the officer
> in-charge, said. He had been held at the jail since Sunday. He is now
> being held at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi
> pending deportation.
>
> The move came as the Gambia, the destination of his last aborted
> expulsion bid, denied ever agreeing to accept him. The Gambian
> government has threatened to impound any aircraft that will fly the
> preacher to the West African nation.
>
> And in a related development, an activist has gone to court to try and
> force the government to produce Sheikh al-Faisal in court. Also sought
> by Mr Al-Amin Kimathi in suit papers filed in court on Wednesday, is
> an order stopping the government from deporting the cleric before the
> application is heard and determined.
>
> The preacher’s presence in Kenya has been declared a security risk by
> Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’. The statement by the Gambian
> government complicates matters for the already embarrassed Kenyan
> authorities. On Thursday last week, Mr Kajwang’ told the press that
> the West African state had accepted Sheikh al-Faisal.
>
> Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in the capital Banjul, acting
> director-general of immigration in the Gambia Buba Sagnia, denied
> there was any such deal with Kenya. “It’s a lie that Abdullah
> al-Faisal was accepted by the Gambian government,” Sagnia told
> reporters.
>
> And on Monday, Mr Kajwang’ said that the Gambia and Nigeria had
> changed their minds over the controversial cleric. The minister blamed
> the media for sending out alarmist reports that portrayed the
> religious leader in an “alarmist and negative” way.
>
> “He chose to go to the Gambia, but when he reached Nigeria on his way
> to Banjul, the authorities denied him a transit visa and put him on
> the next flight back,” Mr Kajwang’ had said on Monday. Attempts to
> reach Mr Kajwang’ for comment were not successful as his phone went
> unanswered. Kenya does not have direct flights to Jamaica and has to
> rely on other countries for passage.
>
> Under international law, too, Kenya has the burden of delivering him
> back home safely, protecting his human rights against violation and
> ensuring that he is not delivered to another government for torture or
> to face charges similar to the ones he was convicted for in the UK in
> 2003.
>
> A British court convicted the cleric for inciting murder and racial
> hatred and sentenced him to nine years in prison back then. He was
> then deported to Jamaica in 2007, according to the New York Times. In
> court on Wednesday, Mr Kimathi said the cleric entered the country
> lawfully and has not breached any laws to warrant detention or
> deportation. Mr Kimathi sued immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’, the
> police commissioner, the commissioner of prisons and the
> attorney-general.
>
> The cleric was first arrested by police at Nyali mosque in Mombasa on
> December 31 and never allowed to see friends, said Mr Kimathi. The
> decision to hold the cleric in custody for long, he says, contradicts
> rights provided for under the constitution and international human
> rights convention. The court papers also say that Sheikh al-Faisal was
> declared a prohibited immigrant without having been accorded the
> opportunity to be heard.
>
> Sheikh al-Faisal says he was never presented before the immigrations
> department to answer any questions or even show cause why his
> immigration status as granted to him at the Lunga-Lunga border point
> should not be revoked. Mr Kimathi argues that the continued detention
> of the cleric without preferring any charges amounts to psychological
> torture. He also accused the government of holding the man without the
> orders of any court of law.
>
> According to the cleric’s wife, Ms Zubeida Khan, who resides in the
> UK, her husband was given a two-month visitor’s entry visa into Kenya.
> Sheikh al- Faisal arrived in Kenya on December 24 after travelling
> through Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Malawi and Tanzania.
>
> Reported by Walter Menya, Jillo Kadida and Fred Mukinda
>
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