British Suspect Planned Attacks on US, European Targets, Kenyan Court Hears

British national Jermaine Grant, on trial in Kenya accused of planning an attack there, was targeting British, French and U.S. interests, a London detective told the court on Tuesday. Kenyan police suspect Grant, from east London, has ties to the Somali al-Shabab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks in the port city of Mombasa, the capital Nairobi and in the remote hinterlands bordering Somalia. Steve Ball, a London police forensic examiner, said officers had...

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