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Source: http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Israeli+experts+to+help+police+secure+towns+/-/1056/1275606/-/15och6a/-/index.html

Israeli Experts to Help Police Secure Towns in Kenya

(Daily Nation-Kenya) Peter Leftie - Israel is sending experts to Kenya to help police secure major cities from possible terrorism attacks, as the government heightened its diplomatic offensive to rally the world around Kenya's military operation to defeat Al-Shabaab. "Israel is willing to send consultants to Kenya to help Kenya secure its cities from terrorist threats and share experience with Kenya because the operation in Somalia is very similar to Israel's operations in the past, first in Lebanon and then in Gaza," Israeli ambassador Gil Haskel said. The security agreement signed during Prime Minister Raila Odinga's recent tour of Israel is in response to grenade attacks in Nairobi, Garissa and Mandera by suspected Al-Shabaab elements retaliating against Kenya's military operation. Islamic militants are said to have dispatched recruiting agents from mosque to mosque, telling potential followers that Kenyan troops had teamed up with Israel to fight Islam.

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