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Farmer recalls conversation with men who may have carried out bombing

(2 Dec 2002) 1. Set up shot of Khamis Deche, owner of Kikambala, walking into a hut 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Khamis Deche, owner of Kikambala farm: "Actually the vehicle was a Pajero, colour was a dark chocolate and the registration number was KAA 83.. 853N." 3. Cutaway chickens 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Khamis Deche, owner of Kikambala farm: "I saw two people - a driver and a passenger. I greeted them in Kiswahili, that is to say 'habari gani' and they replied in 'mozungo' (mozungo is Kiswahili for foreign language)." 5. Cutaway hut 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Khamis Deche, owner of Kikambala farm: "And they said we have not got any problem, we are just waiting for our friend coming from this direction (Deche points in the direction of Hotel Paradise) and we want to go in this direction (pointing the other way). Oh, OK. And I told them 'this is my company, this is my 'shamba' (shamba is farm in Kiswahili) so if anything strange comes here I have to know.' They said 'we've got no problem' and I left them there." 7. Wide shot of the bomb site at Paradise Hotel nearby 8. Various of Kenyan investigative team wearing white overalls with Hebrew writing on the back picking through rubble at site STORYLINE: A Kenyan farmer who may have been the last person to speak with the men believed to be responsible for the Mombasa hotel attack, recalled a hurried conversation with them, followed soon after by an explosion that shook his home. Khamis Haro Deche, 39, a subsistence farmer and fisherman, lives about a kilometre (0.62 miles) from the Paradise Hotel where Thursday's attack took place. Sixteen people were killed in the blast, including three suicide bombers at the beach-front hotel frequented by Israelis. In the first phase of a calculated attack against Israeli targets, just minutes before the hotel bombing, two Strella missiles were fired and narrowly missed an Israeli charter plane departing from Mombasa's airport. Speaking at his farm on Monday, Deche said that shortly after 8 a.m. that morning, a brown Mitsubishi Pajero with tinted windows and a red stripe had pulled into his yard. He approached the car and saw two men - a slight young man with a nervous, shifty manner in the passenger seat, and an older stockily built driver. He leaned inside the vehicle to shake the hands of both men and saw no other people in the car. He noticed several cellular phones on the dashboard. The man in the passenger seat spoke in Arabic-accented, hesitant Kiswahili - Kenya's lingua franca - and told Deche that he and the driver were waiting for a friend coming from the direction of the Paradise Hotel. Initial reports spoke of three men in the suicide vehicle, one of whom jumped out and blew himself up in the hotel lobby after the car had crashed through the gate. Deche described the men as Arabs and said he recognised them as Muslim because of indentations on their foreheads, common to especially devout Muslims who so often bow their heads to the ground in prayer. Deche said he became suspicious because there had been thefts in the area, so he took note of the licence number - KAA 853N. He said Kenyan police and some white men who questioned him a day later told him the two men in the vehicle were suspects in the hotel bombing. A short while after the car drove off in the direction of the hotel, an explosion shook his house, Deche said. Police showed Deche a picture of Babu Mohamed al-Misri, an Egyptian fugitive indicted in the 1998 U-S embassy bombing in Nairobi whose name has been linked to Thursday's attack. to handle it. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...