Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the Al Qaeda bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Over 250 people died in these attacks, with more than 5,000 injured. Of these, three hundred have subsequently died in Kenya.

Four of those who carried out these atrocities were jailed for life in 2001, and two others are reported to be held in Guantanamo Bay. However, the plot's mastermind, a Comorean with Kenyan citizenship called Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, is still on the loose, despite a US$5million reward on his head. These people do not give up. After slipping back into Kenya, in late 2002 Fazul and his teams launched an attack on the Paradise Hotel, which is owned by Israelis and patronised by Israeli tourists, while using two Strela 2 surface to air missiles in a vain attempt to shoot down a passenger flight from Moi International Airport to Tel Aviv. Fifteen people died and eighty were injured in the Paradise Hotel attack. The terrorists slipped away to Somalia, whence many of them had come.