Norway's intelligence agency has launched an investigation into whether a Norwegian citizen was involved in last month's terror attack on Kenya's Westgate Mall.
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"PST has received information that a Norwegian
citizen of Somali origin may have been involved in the planning and
execution of the attack," the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
"PST has decided on this basis to initiate an investigation."
The agency said it had sent officers to Nairobi, where they would work with Kenyan police.
"The enquiry will primarily be aimed at helping prevent new terrorist
acts and [determining] to what degree the Norwegian... was involved in
the attack," it said.
The Star, a Kenyan
newspaper, has reported that Kenyan police now believe that the attack
was at least partly planned in Norway.
According to the newspaper, police investigating the attacks have
written to the Norwegian Embassy requesting assistance locating a Somali
refugee still living in Norway.
"He is
well known in Daadab [a refugee camp in the north of Kenya]. We think
part of the planning was done in the camp," a police source told the
newspaper.
The Somali insurgent group
al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack, which
left at least 67 people dead.
According to
VG newspaper, the Norwegian Somali Kenyan police have requested help
locating is not Ikrima al-Muhajir, another Somali who has spent time
living in Norway, who was the target of a US raid against Somalia last
week.
