00:01found guilty for facilitating a deadly terrorist attack.
00:06A court in Nairobi has pronounced its verdict for two Kenyan men on Thursday,
00:11who it said had aided the assailants in one of the country's worst terrorist attacks in recent years.
00:17Hussein Mohamed Abdel Ali and Mohamed Abdi Ali sent money and helped acquire fake identification documents
00:23for the militants from the Somalian Al-Shabaab terrorist group,
00:26which attacked the Ducid D2 hotel complex in Nairobi in 2019.
00:3221 people died and 28 others were wounded during the assault.
00:39Al-Shabaab has repeatedly targeted Kenya for the deployment of its armed forces in counterterrorism operations in Somalia.
00:46A third suspect in the hotel attack, who had been charged alongside the two Kenyan nationals,
00:51had earlier pleaded guilty and was sentenced.
00:53The two men, meanwhile, are expected to be sentenced next month.
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