Hussein Hashi Hemed Farah, who has an Australian passport, is wanted for masterminding the attacks on the Holsworthy army base in August last year, a source at Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) said.
"The suspect was among others who planned to execute the bombing in an army base in Australia but he managed to escape, others were arrested," the source said.
Terror suspect who escaped in Kenya was wanted in Australia"He is part of the Melbourne terror cell group, and has been on the run for sometime now," he added.
Farah was arrested as he entered Kenya through the Uganda border on March 13, but managed to escape from custody hours later, in what authorities now believe to be collusion with police officers who were on duty at the time.
Kenyan police described Farah as being on a list of individuals barred from entering the country and a senior member of Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamist rebels.
In December, a radical Jamaican cleric on a global terror watchlist was arrested after entering the country from Tanzania, but attempts to deport him sparked riots by Muslims who protested against his arrest.
Abdullah al-Faisal was eventually deported on January 21.
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