Reward offered for arrest of terrorist suspects

Kenyan police on Monday announced a US $6,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of either of two men suspected of carrying out last month's failed missile attack on an Israeli airliner in Mombasa. Although the two suspects have not been named, police were able to release computer-generated images of the men, believed to be in their thirties, the BBC reported. The announcement comes 11 days after 16 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Israeli-owned hotel near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. The Kenyan police's suspects are thought to be responsible for a near simultaneous missile attack on an Israeli-operated charter plane at Mombasa airport, which narrowly missed its target. Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, along with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, met US President George W. Bush in Washington on Thursday, and discussed cooperation in efforts to tackle terrorism in East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Bush met the two leaders at the White House for about an hour, during which the men discussed cooperation in the war against terrorism, regional issues involving security in the Horn of Africa, the current food crisis in the region, and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, told journalists in Washington. "The best thing we can do to help secure your countries is to chase the killers down, and we're making good progress. Slowly but surely we're dismantling an Al-Qaeda network," Bush said. Bush said this week he believed that Al-Qaeda was responsible for last month's attacks on the Kenyan coast. "If the terrorists could strike in Kenya, they could strike in Ethiopia, they could strike in Europe," he said on Thursday. An audio statement, apparently from the Al-Qaeda network, posted on an Islamist website and broadcast on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television channel, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The man imparting the message identified himself as Sulayman Abu Ghayth, a self-proclaimed spokesman for Al-Qaeda, Voice of America reported. Kenya is a possible destination for Bush when he travels to Africa next month, a stop that could include a visit to the new US embassy in the capital, Nairobi, according to Associated Press. The previous US embassy was destroyed in 1998, in a bomb attack also blamed on Al-Qaeda. As Bush met the two African leaders, US marines and Kenyan troops were carrying out joint exercises off the Kenyan coast. The US military regularly conducts such exercises in Kenya.