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2 Killed in Clash at Terror-Linked Mombasa Mosque
2014-02-03
Granted, the 'terror-linked' phrase in the headline is redundant in that part of the world...
Police opened fire on Muslim terrorists youths wielding daggers at a mosque linked to recruiting Islamic terrorists extremists, and at least one officer and a youth were killed, witnesses and officials said in the coastal resort and port city of Mombasa.

Police said they raided the mosque acting on intelligence that a meeting to recruit terrorists militants was going on.

A reporter at the scene saw police shoot and kill one person as they tried to disperse a growing crowd outside the Masjid Musa mosque, which has been the recent site of violent confrontations between young Muslim terrorists radicals and police.

A police officer who was stabbed in the face later died of his wounds, said Mombasa police commander Robert Kitur. Another police officer was stabbed in the stomach and is being treated at a local hospital, he said.
So the 'youts' with the knives were serious. Why are they still breathing?
Police later occupied the mosque and its precincts, Kitur said.

“We have arrested dozens of youths who attacked our officers while on duty at the mosque and they are under interrogation,” he said. “We have recovered a rifle that was robbed from one of our officers in the exercise. The officers were on a mission to remove radical paraphernalia from the mosque when they faced resistance.”

Kenyan police have linked the Masjid Musa mosque to recruitment of militants for SomaliaÂ’s al-Shabab terrorist organization, which claimed responsibility for an attack last year on an upscale shopping mall in which up to 67 people were killed in Nairobi, the capital. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab terrorist group said that attack was in retaliation for KenyaÂ’s military involvement in Somalia, where the countryÂ’s troops are deployed as part of African Union troops fighting the terrorists militants.

Henry Ondieki, the Mombasa chief of criminal investigations, said police forcibly entered the mosque after getting intelligence that a meeting to recruit terrorists militants was underway. “This was not a normal day of prayers,” he said. “Their intention was clear: they were planning to recruit terrorists and attack innocent Kenyan civilians.”

Rights campaigners say the Kenyan governmentÂ’s harsh counterterrorism measures are pushing Muslim youths toward extremism.
Yup, it's always government's fault. The imams and crazy elders never have anything to do with recruitment...
Posted by:Steve White

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