Residents and businesses are suffering from insecurity due to Shabaab attacks in the coastal province of Lamu; leaflets are circulating warning non-Muslims to leave. Foreign Secretary Mohammed said Kenya’s travel advisory warning Kenyans about the UK’s Heathrow airport due to the danger of al Qaeda terror attacks was not retaliatory; the UK had recently warned its citizens to avoid travel to Mombasa. Eastleigh residents complained of extortion by police making false arrests of alleged “Shabaab” suspects. Witnesses said that the 50 Shabaab gunmen who stormed two villages in Lamu on July 12 briefly took over a mosque, where they delivered a delivered a 30-minute sermon calling on worshipers to support their jihad.
