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NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Police narrowly missed capturing a wanted al-Qaida leader in Kenya during the weekend and are conducting an intense manhunt for him, officials said.
The fugitive, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, is accused of planning the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 250 people, the BBC reported Monday. The broadcaster said Mohammed barely evaded a police raid at the coastal town of Malindi, where three people were arrested for allegedly harboring him.
The United States has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Mohammed's arrest.
A Kenyan official also told the BBC that the United States was warned by local officials in 1998 that an attack was coming on its embassy, but did not act on the information. Maj. Marsden Madoka, who led the investigation of the Kenya bombing, said the failure may have been the result of poor communication between the embassy and U.S. intelligence agencies.
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