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Last week Norway's intelligence agency, the PST, said it had sent officers to Kenya to verify reports that a Norwegian citizen had been involved in the assault on Kenya's Westgate shopping centre, reports the BBC.
At least 67 people died in the attack, which the al-Qaeda linked group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for.
BBC news has revealed that the man being investigated by Norwegian police over the attack is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow.
The 23-year-old Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is suspected of helping to plan and carry out the attack.
Dhuhulow was born in Somalia, but he and his family moved to Norway as refugees in 1999.
A relative of his in Norway said he left the town of Larvik for Somalia in 2009, adding that he made infrequent, increasingly erratic, phone calls to his family, the last one coming in the summer when he said that he was in trouble and wanted to return home.
When he was shown the CCTV footage of the Kenya attackers, Dhuhulow's relative said: "I don't know what I feel or think... If it is him, he must have been brainwashed."
Police had initially estimated that there were 10-15 attackers inside the complex, but the CCTV footage which has so far been released by the Kenyan authorities shows just four men and Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow is believed to be one of those four.
Forensic investigators are still combing through the rubble of Westgate - no bodies have yet been identified and it is not known whether the attackers are alive or dead.
