Breaking News: Uhuru may skip Hague hearings

In the strongest indication yet that President Uhuru Kenyatta does NOT plan to attend any sessions of his trial at the ICC foreign secretary Amina Abdallah in a lengthy but guarded briefing with the press just a few moments ago emphasized that no sitting president in history has ever been tried in any court internationally or locally while still in office.

And although she was very guarded and avoided answering questions directly from the press about whether or not the president will attend his trial at the ICC, it was very clear reading between the lines of what she said that Uhuru has no intentions of ever going to the Hague and the very best that he will do with co-operating with the ICC will be to agree to attend via a video link from Nairobi.

When you analyze Amina Abdallah's press briefing today with what is happening in the background it is almost a certainty to analysts that the president has NO intention of ever setting foot at the Hague.

For instance the trial of his co-accused deputy President William Ruto is not going well (see my earlier raw notes today).

The authoritative Associated press said just a few minutes ago that the Kenyan foreign secretary's statement appeared to be "laying the groundwork to avoid having President Uhuru Kenyatta appear at the International Criminal Court next month."

There is also the fact the GOK has been dragging its' feet over the handing over of former journalist Walter Barasa whom the ICC wants to try for interfering with witnesses in the Kenyan ICC cases. The government did nothing for two months and when the arrest warrant on Barasa was made public after 60 days it was said that the matter would be determined by the courts (even before Barasa had filed any case in any court opposing his arrest warrant).

Not to mention the fact that African Union chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma yesterday asked U.N. Security Council envoys on how they might react if asked to defer the international trials of Kenya's leaders so they can deal with the aftermath of the Nairobi mall attack.
African leaders are due to meet in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for an extra-ordinary meeting this weekend to take a common stance on whether to join Kenya's planned pull-out from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the prosecution of its leaders.

Zuma said African leaders felt that after the attack by al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab on the Westgate center in Nairobi last month, Kenyatta and Ruto needed to be in Kenya instead of traveling to The Hague for their trials.

These new developments are NOT good news to Ruto who could easily be detained at the Hague if a confrontation ensues with the ICC as is likely to happen the way things are going.

Kumekucha caught napping several times
I have to admit that many recent events in Kenya have caught me napping. For instance I received info 6 months before the Westgate attack that there was a possibility of a Mumbai-like terrorist attack on either the Village Market or Westgate shopping malls. This info was not used in my raw notes because we were not able to verify its' authenticity (we like to confirm info from, at the very least, one other independent source before we publish anything in these raw notes.) However I am sure some of my very well informed regular readers here would have easily digested it based on how familiar they were at the
time on developments within the al-Shabab high command.

Again on the Monday after Saturday 21st September at the height of of the Westgate siege I received information that the terrorists had escaped. There was no way I was going to publish that at the time. It did not make sense even though it came from a highly reliable source. More so because gun fire and explosions could still be heard at Westgate.

Again almost two days after the siege ended another bizarre report came in to the effect that there was still a lone terrorist firing at the KDF from the Westgate ruins. This info has still not been verified to date.

These are just a few of the most recent examples. It is because of this happening too often that I have decided to give access to these raw intelligence reports. I wish I could give out free but as you all know gathering this info is not FREE and neither is it easy, otherwise I would have had dozens of copycats doing this all over the web already as we like to do things in Kenya.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta mentioned by al-Shabaab in explosive interview

Most People forget that above everything else terror groups like al-Shabaab are about politics. The interview I reproduce here today should be an eye-opener for many.

This is a recent interview Al Jazeera had with a top military spokesman of al-Shabab. It is extremely interesting and even the President of Kenya is mentioned.

Al Jazeera's Hamza Mohamed interviewed al-Shabab's spokesman for military operations, Sheikh Abulaziz Abu Muscab. Abulaziz spoke about why the group attacked Nairobi and their future plans. He also provided insight into al-Shabab's relations with the Mombasa Youth Centre, a group the Kenyan government designated as a terrorist organisation.

Al Jazeera: It is more than two years since Kenyan troops went into Somalia to fight al-Shabab. Why did al-Shabab attack Nairobi now?

Sheikh Abulaziz Abu Muscab: We have been late in attacking Nairobi. We did not attack before because they were expecting us to attack. Our aim is to attack our enemy when they least expect us to attack. This time they were not expecting us to attack. We choose when to attack, and best time to attack.

AJ: Is this al-Shabab's first attack in Nairobi?

SA: Thats not the importing thing. The important thing is it is us who attacked now. It is not important to say we attacked before or not.

AJ: This attack is happening at Westgate Mall, which, when the attack started, was full of shoppers. Why is al-Shabab attacking a place that is full of civilians?

SA: The place we attacked is Westgate shopping mall. It is a place where tourists from across the world come to shop, where diplomats gather. It is a place where Kenya's decision-makers go to relax and enjoy themselves. Westgate is a place where there are Jewish and American shops. So we have to attack them.

On civilian deaths, Kenya should first be asked why they bombed innocent Somali civilians in refugee camps, why they bombed innocent people in Gedo and Jubba regions. They should be asked that first before us.

AJ: Al-Shabab claims to work to protect Muslims and Somalis in particular. Some of the people killed in this attack suggests otherwise.

SA: History supports our claim. We are the only ones protecting Somalis and Somalia. We are the only group fighting Somalia's historic enemies. We are the only one who can say "no" to Somalis' enemies.

On the loss of lives, there were Kenyan soldiers firing back at our fighters. There was an exchange of gunfire. There is no evidence it was our bullets that killed them.
Shoppers flee Nairobi's Westgate Mall [Reuters]

We released all Muslims when we took control of the mall. Witnesses have backed us on this.

AJ: Do you think this attack will make Kenya withdraw its troops from Somalia?

SA: That question is not for us to answer. That is for the Kenyan government to answer. It is up to them to withdraw their soldiers or not. If they don't withdraw, attacks like this will become common in Kenya. It is possible if they don't withdraw attacks like this will happen in Kenyan cities and towns every day.

AJ: Before Kenyan troops went into Somalia in October 2011, what was al-Shabab's relation with the Kenyan government?

SA: We always knew Kenya is the enemy of the Somali people. We knew this when we controlled the border towns. Kenya invading us was not unexpected. We don't believe them and we dont trust them.

AJ: Kenya says it will go after the perpetrators of this attack and won't stop until they are defeated. What do you say to that?... (continued in my current raw notes where Uhuru is mentioned by the terrorists).

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