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Deputy President Ruto said Kenya would not be cowed into withdrawing troops from Somalia in the wake of recent Shabaab bombings in Mombasa and Nairobi. Ruto blamed judges for releasing terror suspects Jamal Mohammed Awadh and Suleiman Mohammed Sayyed, who allegedly died in the Mombasa blasts; he said 22 other suspected terrorists have also been wrongly freed on bail, including Fuad Abubakar Maswab, who is thought to have fled to Somalia. President Kenyatta vowed to intensify security; last week 700 security force members were deployed to the coast. Police detonated a grenade found at a school in Garissa.