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Kenya: As the shock of three women arrested in El Wak on Friday on alleged jihadist mission in Somalia and Syria sinks, The Standard sought some background information about two of the alleged terrorist suspects.
Detectives believe Malindi-born Maryam Said Aboud and Khadija Abdulkadir from Malindi met Zanzibar student of medicine Ummul Khayr Sadir Abdullah on an internet chat room who allegedly recruited them to Al-Shabaab with the promise of marrying Islamic holy fighters.
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