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| Kenyan cleric shot dead, sparks riots in Mombasa | |
| 2012-08-27 | |
| Hundreds of protesters smashed cars and torched churches in the Kenyan city of Mombasa on Monday after unknown gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric accused by the United States of helping Islamist militants in Somalia. One protester was killed in the riots which erupted after Aboud Rogo Mohammed was shot on Monday, as youths from the port city's large Muslim population took to the streets complaining he had been deliberately targeted by police. "It's an attack on Muslims, and we will not take it lightly," said Suleiman Atham, one of the protesters. Deputy police chief Robert Kitur said Rogo - who faced terrorism charges over allegations he was recruiting non-Somali Africans for Somalia's al Shabaab militant group - was killed while driving in a private car. "Unknown gunmen attacked his vehicle ... sprayed it with bullets and killed him on the spot," Kitur said. "They must have been targeting him, and must have been trailing him for a while." In what police described as an act of impulse
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Similar attack in Russia - one Muslim Cleric repor killed also. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-27 22:22 |
| #1 "He was bein' a pain..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-08-27 17:46 |