Please explain[/quote]
The old anti-terrorism bill was a hand down of the American one. It gave sweeping powers to law enforcement to detain people indefinitely without evidence or trial, allowed foreign law enforcement( read U.S) access to citizens of Kenya, gave uninhibited access to otherwise private things like bank accounts, phone records, surveillance without following due legal process. At one point it could be used to set up secret prisons like those the Americans set up in Morocco.

All done and said its good this war against these crooks is in place. This was a deadly time bomb that was to explode on Kenyans either way.
Kenyans should be ready to fight until the last of these moron is dead. The war should be fought within and outside the country. We shall pay the price but allowing them to thrive further will hurt us more.

Right now, am ready to be recruited to the military to fight for this country if need be.

I hope Al-Shabaab is eliminated as much as you do.

But we need to learn from those bigger than ourselves who have tried to eliminate terrorism by invading a 'terrorist friendly' territory.

Someone said earlier that we are going after the tail... the head has been in Nairobi all along.

IMHO Securing the border, empowering the Somali Govt forces and permanently disconnecting the Nairobi money taps would have had a lesser probability for retaliation.

But an Invasion ?

Kwani how many of that rag tag band of bandits were out there ?
I think the invasion was overkill kidogo... jets, drones, tanks from about 3 armies?

The collateral damage will turn kawaida somali nationals into Al shabaab sympathizers.

The result.

Xenophobia, Perpetual surveillance and fear at home, civil rights violations by Govt.

Please explain[/quote]
The old anti-terrorism bill was a hand down of the 1. American one. It gave sweeping powers to law enforcement to detain people indefinitely without evidence or trial, 2.allowed foreign law enforcement( read U.S) access to citizens of Kenya, 3.gave uninhibited access to otherwise private things like bank accounts, phone records, surveillance without following due legal process. At one point it could be used to set up 4 secret prisons like those the Americans set up in Morocco.[/quote]

This is not an attack, but i think we should look at these things more objectively.

1. So what is the problem with it being handed down from the US Patriot Act? If its good enough for the americans and all their civil rights, don't you think its good enough for our leftists in civil societies

2. I don't see any problem with US policemen using "enhanced interrogation techniques" on kenyan citizens like fazul, the guys who threw grenades yesterday, the mungiki and so on. What's the problem?

3. o what's the big deal? Do you think the NSIS is going o snoop on your phone; really? they will look for people worth snooping.

4. And which country does not have secret prisons, apart from the some few European countries? Rwanda?

I think the greatest threat to kenya is not terrosirsm, but people who are always ready to be fed with leftist dogma, which thrives high sounding words like "draconian," "non-reformists" "new constitutional dispensation."

This is news now....we will scare these scarecrows out of their breath, squeeze them and defeat them and we will remain a peace haven in the horn of africa