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General Category => World News => Topic started by: EC on May 26, 2013, 07:38:45 pm

Title: Kenyan police kill Muslim cleric with ties to Somali militants
Post by: EC on May 26, 2013, 07:38:45 pm

Via Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/26/us-kenya-cleric-idUSBRE94P0A720130526?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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(Reuters) - A Muslim cleric accused of possessing explosives and radicalizing Kenyan youths into joining the Somali Islamist rebel group al Shabaab was killed in a shootout with police on Sunday, Kenyan authorities said.

Police said Khalid Ahmed, a Somali with a Kenyan passport, had been a close friend of Aboud Rogo, a slain Muslim cleric whom the Kenyan government and the United States accused of helping al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in Somalia.

Senior police official Thomas Sangut said Ahmed was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police at his family home in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa. Two policemen were wounded, and a hand grenade, two gun magazines and 68 rounds of ammunition were recovered, Sangut told a news conference.

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