STREET PROTESTS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, WARNS KENYA'S POLICE CHIEF http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/v2/read.php?id=163687

Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere has warned that the police will not tolerate street protests anywhere in the country.Even though the country's new Constitution permits peaceful demonstration, that right is not absolute and must be exercised with utmost responsibility, he said here Sunday. "Kenya is an orderly state and we shall not allow the order we enjoy to be ruined by people breaking the law by holding illegal demonstrations," he warned.

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The Pentagon gave Kenya $1.6 million worth of weaponry and other military assistance in 2006 and an estimated $2.5 million in 2007 through its Foreign Military Sales Program. In 2008 the Bush Administration expects to provide Kenya with $800,000 in Foreign Military Financing Program funds to pay for further arms purchases.Kenya has also been permitted to make large arms deals directly with private American arms producers through the State Department’s Direct Commercial Sales Program. ----------------------------------------

Kenya took deliver of $1.9 million worth of arms this way in 2005, got an estimated $867,000 worth in 2007, and is expected to receive another $3.1 million worth this year.In addition, the Bush Administration intends to spend $550,000 in 2008 to train Kenyan military officers in the United States through the International Military Education and Training Program at military academies and other military educational institutions in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Trains Kenyan Officials as It Steps Up War on Crime(WAR ''OF'' CRIME) http://allafrica.com/stories/200912100962.html