{"id":10384,"date":"2014-04-02T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T07:09:40","slug":"kenyan-al-shabab-recruiter-killed-near-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10384","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan ‘al-Shabab recruiter’ killed near Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abubakar Shariff Ahmed was known by his nickname Makaburi meaning “Graveyard” in Swahili<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say.<\/p>\n

His corpse lay on a road with what appeared to be wounds to the head and body, Reuters news agency reports. It is not yet known who killed the cleric.<\/p>\n

Mr Shariff, known as Makaburi, had been listed by the UN as a recruiter for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.<\/p>\n

He is the third Muslim cleric to be killed in Mombasa since 2012.<\/p>\n

Riots broke out in parts of the city as news of the cleric’s killing spread, reports the BBC’s Muliro Telewa from the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n

Police fired into the air to push back furious supporters of Mr Shariff, as his family arrived to identify the body, eyewitnesses said.<\/p>\n

‘Not afraid’<\/p>\n

The UN Security Council had sanctioned the cleric as “a leading facilitator and recruiter of young Kenyan Muslims for violent militant activity in Somalia”.<\/p>\n

He always denied recruiting for al-Shabab, or calling on his followers to travel to Somalia to fight.<\/p>\n

In a BBC interview in December, Mr Shariff said he was aware he could be killed by the Kenyan security services but added that he was not living in fear.<\/p>\n

“I do not fear for my safety,” he said. “I know they are going to kill me. But I am a Muslim. I believe that my life and death [are] in the hands of Allah.”<\/p>\n

Last October, Muslim cleric Ibrahim “Rogo” Omar was gunned down in Mombasa.<\/p>\n

His killing was similar to that of cleric, Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was killed in August 2012.<\/p>\n

Mr Mohammed had also been accused of recruiting and fundraising for al-Shabab.<\/p>\n

Their killings sparked riots in Mombasa.<\/p>\n

Supporters of the clerics accused members of the security forces of killing them – allegations denied by government officials.<\/p>\n

There have been no arrests over the killings.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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