Kenyan authorities say they have cracked the password on a laptop computer belonging to one of the most wanted Al Qaeda suspects in Africa.Posted on 04 February 2007 @ 16:01 GMTA report by the Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, on its Web site Monday quoted anonymous "senior police sources" as saying that the computer "contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection, including spying."
The report gave no further details, but said the computer was seized from the wife of Faisal Abdullah Mohammed - indicted by federal prosecutors for his role in the Al Qaeda truck bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in August, 1998.
Faisal's wife, Halima Badroudine Faisal Husseine, was arrested earlier this month with her three children, crossing the Kenyan border from Somalia - where her husband is widely believed to have been hiding until the turn of the year, when the Islamic militias allegedly sheltering them were routed from Somalia by the Ethiopian military.
The newspaper said police believed Faisal had given her the computer for safe-keeping or delivery to someone else.