UN: Kenya police lists possible terror targets

[June 07, 2012]  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An internal U.N. security report says the Kenya police force has listed seven buildings, including the headquarters of the revenue authority, as being under immediate threat of a terror attack from an al-Qaida-linked militant group.

Somalia's al-Shabab militant group last week threatened to attack Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks, a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city center which killed one person and injured 32 others. It was the third time al-Shabab has threatened to bomb Kenya after the country sent it troops into Somalia to pursue the militants in October.

The U.N. report circulated late Tuesday says police are restricting parking at the buildings listed and are screening all people going into them.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the U.N. report is misleading and denied designating any building as being under threat.

[Associated Press]

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