FILE | NATION A guard wearing a protective face mask speaks with a detainee through a fence, as another paces inside the exercise yard, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in this May 31, 2009 picture. Kenyan Moohammed Abdulmalik is held in Guantanamo.

A Kenyan arrested in a Mombasa cafe was sent to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba more than four years ago to extract information from him on the 2002 Paradise Hotel terror attack, according to a secret file obtained by WikiLeaks.
A dossier on Mohammed Abdulmalik, listed by identification number US9KE-010025DP, is included among the trove of more than 700 files on Guantanamo detainees, past and present, provided to The New York Times and published on Monday.
“On 13 February 2007,” the Abdulmalik dossier states, “detainee was located at the Salama Cyber Cafe in Bondeni, Mombasa. Kenyan authorities established surveillance of detainee and followed him to a hotel. Detainee was subsequently arrested by Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers inside the Ramadhan Cafe.”
Mr Abdulmalik was transferred to Guantanamo on March 23, 2007, the dossier continues, to “face possible prosecution for terrorist activities against the United States and to provide information on training and individuals associated with the Somali training camp in Raas Kaambooni.”
He is also being held in connection with the bombing of the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala that killed 13 people and the botched bit to shoot down, on the same day, an Israeli airliner carrying 271 passengers, the file indicates.
Mr Abdulmalik is the only Kenyan among 172 men still being held in the Guantanamo prison. A total of 604 detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo to their home countries or resettled elsewhere in the last nine years.
The prison was established in response to the September 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.
President Barack Obama ordered in 2009 that the prison be closed within one year, but he reversed the edit last month in a move that allows resumption of military trials of Guantanamo detainees.
A March 2, 2010, letter from the Kenyan Foreign Ministry obtained by the Reuters news agency states that then Foreign Minister Moses Wetang’ula “has initiated the process of addressing the case of Abdulmalik’s repatriation back home.”
The letter did not specify what the government is doing to bring about Mr Abdulmalik’s transfer to Kenya.
In December 2009, Mr Abdulmalik’s family sued the Kenyan government for Sh2.25 billion compensation for wrongful detention and subsequent torture.
A Pentagon press release states that the suspect had admitted to taking part in the Paradise Hotel bombing and the attempt to down an Israeli airliner.
“The capture of Malik exemplifies the genuine threat that the United States and other countries face throughout the world in the war on terrorism,” the Pentagon declared.
Thirteen people — three Israelis and 10 Kenyans — were killed when suicide bombers rammed a car filled with explosives into the Kikambala Paradise Hotel.
The incident happened simultaneously with another when two missiles were fired at an Israeli Arkia airliner, as it was leaving Mombasa International Airport. The missiles missed their target, and the plane continued safely on its journey to Israel.
The revelations come at a time human rights activists are embroiled in a row with the Kenya and Uganda governments over the rendition of 10 Kenyans to Uganda.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has accused the US and the UK of being behind the illegal transfer of Kenyans suspected of terrorism to Uganda.