(Miami Herald) Carol Rosenberg - The Obama administration has asked Israel to take and prosecute a Kenyan captive held at Guantanamo since 2007, the Miami Herald has learned. U.S. intelligence authorities have linked Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 43, to a 2002 terror attack on an Israeli hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. A leaked May 2007 prison profile describes Abdul Malik as having "admitted that he participated in the planning and execution" of two terrorist attacks that targeted Israelis on Nov. 28, 2002, in Mombasa. A car-bombing of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel killed 13 people, mostly Kenyans, around the same time an unsuccessful surface-to-air missile attack targeted an Israeli Arkia airliner carrying 271 passengers near Mombasa airport. However, the deal has hit a snag because the FBI has failed to furnish the Israelis with information from its interrogations of Abdul Malik. "The government of Israel has repeatedly asked for information to support their possible prosecution. But, for reasons that are unclear, the FBI has declined to provide the information that has been requested by senior Israeli prosecutors," said a U.S. government official.
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