STAR LEADER: Security scares: More questions than answers Kenyans have been left with many more questions than answers by the high-threat-of terrorism alerts issued by a number of Western governments and their embassies as well as the United Nations in Nairobi, the only UN headquarters located in the developing world. The spectacle of tour companies evacuating vacationers in chartered aircraft from Kenya in their hundreds amid scenes of loudly protesting hoteliers and bureaucrats is unprecedented. President Uhuru’s own almost despairing words on Friday to the effect that, as far as Kenyan Intelligence can tell and as far as he has been briefed, there are no such threat levels as are being claimed in the Western advisories, is cause also for worry. Something, somewhere has gone badly wrong. Intelligence sharing on international terrorism threats, particularly regarding their imminence, is a complex and multilayered affair, full of grey areas and interagency rivalries, even within individual national entities. When it comes to first-world intelligence agencies sharing information on clear and present dangers with developing-nations, evacuations of holidaymakers by the planeload and cancellations of future trips for weeks on end are very dire signals indeed. What is it that these first world entities know that we are not being told? Or have we been told, but were unable to grasp the implications, for whatever reason?
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:42:32 +0000
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