"They would not take US dollars, so I told them I was going to go back to my old hotel and get the correct amount. When we were going outside the gate, a white man came running alongside and bashed on my door and said, 'You are an Arab and I need to see your ID'. He said he was a policeman, but I said I wanted to see his ID before I showed him mine."
Mr Sayid, who has addresses in both Sydney and Brisbane, says he, his Bosnian-born wife Sitaka Bonjak and his 15-year-old nephew declared they were Australian and meant no harm to anyone. They were kept at the hotel for three hours before a police four-wheel-drive carrying counter-terrorism officers showed up.
"Then all of a sudden we had the Minister for Security in Kenya saying they had captured an Arab terrorist."
Their passports were verified by the Australian embassy and they were found not to be in breach of visa laws, and Mr Sayid asked to be freed.
"Then they tried to change the subject - they said it was the Israeli Government that were calling the shots.
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