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Terror suspects Abdiaziz Abdullah Abdi and Isaak Noor Ibrahim were arraigned on charges relating to a Shabaab plot to bomb buildings in Mombasa. Two other suspects, Mohammed Daayo, a Somali national, and Shadrack Nicholas, a Kenyan, were arrested in Mombasa on March 18. The alleged mastermind of the plot, said to have been arrested on March 18, reportedly "slipped through a police dragnet" into Tanzania, and is being sought by Interpol. Security officials from the UK as well as the FBI are assisting Kenyan forces with counterterror operations. Collusion between Kenyan security officers and terrorist suspects has caused authorities to move 145 inmates charged with terrorism to maximum security prisons.