Police on 17th November 2017 arrested two youths namely; Malhassan Hassan Hussein and Anthony Mwangi Maina aka Hassan Juleybib who were on their way to Somalia to join the Al-Shabaab terror group. The two were arrested in Mombasa following a tip off from members of the public.
All two have a history of terror –related activities and linkages with other terrorists and hard-core criminals, some of whom are currently serving lengthy sentences in Kenyan prisons.
Malhassan, a suspected ISIS sympathizer, has once been arrested on terrorism related charges in 2015, while she was en-route to Somalia via Boni forest. She was also arrested in 2014 alongside her two brothers Ibrahim Kaluime and Ali Dzivo, and her close friend Mariam Nur, while heading to Somalia to join Al Shabaab.
Reliable sources from within security agencies have confided that Malhassan was one of the key suspects in facilitating an attempted prison break at Shimo la Tewa prison in July, 2013 in which incarcerated terror prisoners were to escape.
Malhassan is a close friend to Thabit Jamaldin Yahya who is now imprisoned, serving a life sentence for her role in the Bella Vista restaurant attack in Mombasa in 2012.