WASHINGTON, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Pentagon said on Monday that a suspected plotter of twin terror attacks in Kenya in 2002 has been transferred to its detention facility in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the man, named Abdul Malik, was arrested in East Africa and admitted a role in the twin attacks.

    In November 2002, a suicide attack on a tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killed 15 people.

    Shortly afterwards, an Israeli airliner leaving Mombasa was targeted by a missile attack, but not damaged.

    No information has been released regarding Malik's nationality or how he was sent to Guantanamo.

    Whitman only said Malik was captured as part of an ongoing conflict with al-Qaida and was involved in terrorist attacks in East Africa.

    "Due to the significant threat that this terror suspect represents, he has been transferred to Guantanamo," he added.

    Some news reports said it was Kenya that turned over Malik to U.S. authorities in the past few weeks.

    He is not among the 14 "high value" terror suspects transferred to Guantanamo last year from CIA's secret prisons.

    Malik will have a combatant status review at Guantanamo to determine whether the U.S. military is legally allowed to detain him at the prison without charge.

    There are now approximately 385 detainees at Guantanamo.