Kenya allowed Israeli spy agency, Mossad, to interrogate and kill suspects arrested after the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kikambala, Kilifi County in 2002, leaked messages have alleged. After capturing some suspects, the Israelis reportedly slashed and fed them to crocodiles. There is no indication of where they were allegedly dumped. Three Israelis and 13 Kenyans were killed in the terrorist attack, blamed on suicide bombers and claimed by a previously unknown group-Army of Palestine. According to the cables, the Israeli intelligence agents killed the suspects to avenge the deaths of three compatriots killed in the attacks. The allegations back claims by dozens of suspects detained after the attack that they were interrogated and tortured at undisclosed places by white foreigners. Terrible crimes The cables disclose that minutes after the attack Mossad's leadership deployed agents from a unit called Kidon "to find and kill the men" behind the bombings. Other intelligence sources are also quoted as saying several suspects were killed and the Israelis "dumped their bodies in crocodile infested waters". Obtained by Al Jazeera and the UK's The Guardian newspaper, the reports allege Mossad's extensive activities in Kenya, including against terror suspects, training of Kenya's intelligence and security services and also confirm past activities on Kenyan soil in which the Israelis were suspected to have been involved. These include the capture of Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan in Nairobi in 1999 for which the Turkish government took responsibility, but which according to the cables was orchestrated by Mossad after intercepting Ocalan's communication from the Greek embassy in Nairobi. Regarding the November 28, 2002 Kikambala bombing, the cables report that minutes after the attack and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israel airliner at Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Mossad dispatched its agents from the four corners of Africa and the world to find the terrorists and their backers. A cable, apparently leaked from South Africa's intelligence detailing Mossad's activities in Africa titled-Geopolitical Country and Intelligence Assessment-and which is marked SECRET, alleges Mossad agents from two sections of the Israel spy agency swarmed Mombasa and other coastal towns to hunt down perpetrators of the attacks. "Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon has pledged to avenge the killings of the Israelis in Kenya and has deployed agents to Kenya," states the cable referring to a conversation by then Israeli's premier.
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