The killing of Osama bin Laden by eliteUStroops in anIslamabadsuburb papered with top retired soldiers not far from a military college is suggestive that Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga could as well be hiding inNairobi.
In fact, it shouldn’t come as a surprise if the fellow was holed up in an apartment adjoining Central Police Station or even DOD while detectives chase shadows — if at all anyone is still hunting him.
That Kabuga has completely evaded law enforcement officials in spite of having a huge bounty on his head means that Osama, a more crafy operative, would have spent the rest of his days here without anyone being the wiser.
He wouldn’t even have needed to invest in a multi-million home with high perimeter walls. A small duka in Hurlingham would have sufficed. He would even have taken up a wife who would later confess that she had never seen his ID card.
If it’s a matter of acquiring Kenyan citizenship, he would not even have needed to forge them. With the kind of money the rascal was rumoured to have, a patently legit Kenyan passport and ID would have been hand delivered to his front door, no questions asked.
Tipped off
In the event that the Americans discovered his hiding place, imagining that Kenyan authorities would have managed to arrest, leave alone kill him is a pipe dream. After all, attempts to arrest some of Osama’s lowly foot soldiers here have come a cropper when the fugitives mysteriously evaded their captors or escaped just in the nick of time, suggesting they had been tipped off.
In any case, they would have pulled up at the residence in hundreds, with a TV crew in tow. They would be a curious mixture, GSU, flying squad and CID, all dressed in all manner of different civilian jackets. Other than AK47 assault rifles, the only other thing in their arsenal would be teargas canisters.
There would be no clear command structure. In fact, the provincial police boss would be around and he would jerk with fright each time a stray bullet was fired. In the end, it’s the teargas fumes that would smoke Osama out of his hole.
No equipment
No way our men are getting into that building because in the unlikely event that they have the training, they obviously don’t have the equipment.
That evening, while the government spokesman would be grinning from ear to ear, a press conference somewhere in Parliament buildings would be held to make it clear the killing of Osama was not sanctioned by the Coalition Government.
“Our principal was not consulted. This is a case of extra judicial killing, a crime against humanity and impunity at its best. We shall fight to the bitter end.”
Fortunately for everyone, the bitter end would come soonest, in the name of a Bill to increase gratuity for Members of Parliament.
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