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| Fighting continues in Mombasa after death of radical Islamist preacher | Fighting continues in Mombasa after death of radical Islamist preacher |
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| Police and protesters fought running battles as a violent backlash to the killing of a radical Islamic preacher carried into a second day in Kenya's second-largest city of Mombasa. The fighting has left several people hospitalised including seven injured in a grenade attack, police and human rights officials have said. | Police and protesters fought running battles as a violent backlash to the killing of a radical Islamic preacher carried into a second day in Kenya's second-largest city of Mombasa. The fighting has left several people hospitalised including seven injured in a grenade attack, police and human rights officials have said. |
| Human rights groups say the killing on Monday of Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was shot as he drove in his car with his family, falls into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists, allegedly being orchestrated by Kenyan police. The attack has brought to the surface tensions in a city established centuries ago by Muslim traders from the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, now home to hundreds of thousands of people of Arab descent and a large Somali population. | Human rights groups say the killing on Monday of Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was shot as he drove in his car with his family, falls into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists, allegedly being orchestrated by Kenyan police. The attack has brought to the surface tensions in a city established centuries ago by Muslim traders from the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, now home to hundreds of thousands of people of Arab descent and a large Somali population. |
| Police officers teargassed youths on a second day of protests. Hussein Khalid of the Muslims for Human Rights group claimed police were using teargas against stone-throwing protesters. Khalid said one person was stabbed and hospitalised on Tuesday. | Police officers teargassed youths on a second day of protests. Hussein Khalid of the Muslims for Human Rights group claimed police were using teargas against stone-throwing protesters. Khalid said one person was stabbed and hospitalised on Tuesday. |
| Regional police boss Aggrey Adoli said officers were forced to keep violent protests from spreading after protests on Monday led to the death of one person and the vandalism of two churches and businesses. | Regional police boss Aggrey Adoli said officers were forced to keep violent protests from spreading after protests on Monday led to the death of one person and the vandalism of two churches and businesses. |
| "We are trying to contain them so that we don't create more deaths. Deaths and destruction of property will not help with anything," Adoli said. | "We are trying to contain them so that we don't create more deaths. Deaths and destruction of property will not help with anything," Adoli said. |
| Mohammed was recently sanctioned by the US government and the UN for his alleged connection to an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group, al-Shabab. He is the fifth alleged Muslim extremist who has been killed or who has disappeared in the last four months, according to human rights campaigners. One corpse was found mutilated and the other four men vanished. | Mohammed was recently sanctioned by the US government and the UN for his alleged connection to an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group, al-Shabab. He is the fifth alleged Muslim extremist who has been killed or who has disappeared in the last four months, according to human rights campaigners. One corpse was found mutilated and the other four men vanished. |
| Mohammed was shot dead as he drove with his family in Mombasa. His wife was wounded in the leg, according to Mohammed's father, who was also in the car along with Mohammed's five-year-old daughter. He said he and the girl escaped injury. | Mohammed was shot dead as he drove with his family in Mombasa. His wife was wounded in the leg, according to Mohammed's father, who was also in the car along with Mohammed's five-year-old daughter. He said he and the girl escaped injury. |
| Adoli said police had asked Muslim elders and religious leaders to urge protesters to stop the violence. A team of investigators from police headquarters in Nairobi have arrived in Mombasa to start investigating Mohammed's killing, he said. | Adoli said police had asked Muslim elders and religious leaders to urge protesters to stop the violence. A team of investigators from police headquarters in Nairobi have arrived in Mombasa to start investigating Mohammed's killing, he said. |
| Police believe Mohammed had ties to al-Qaida and was part of a terror cell with links to al-Shabab militants that was planning to carry out bomb attacks in Kenya over Christmas. Other members of the cell are said to include Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, who police say is on the run. She is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in multiple bombings of London's transport system on 7 July 2005. | Police believe Mohammed had ties to al-Qaida and was part of a terror cell with links to al-Shabab militants that was planning to carry out bomb attacks in Kenya over Christmas. Other members of the cell are said to include Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, who police say is on the run. She is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in multiple bombings of London's transport system on 7 July 2005. |
| In January, Mohammed was charged with possession of a cache of guns, ammunition and detonators. He also faced charges of membership in al-Shabab | In January, Mohammed was charged with possession of a cache of guns, ammunition and detonators. He also faced charges of membership in al-Shabab |
| Al-Shabab has vowed to carry out a large-scale attack in Nairobi in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into neighbouring Somalia to fight the group. The Kenyan government blames al-Shabab for several kidnappings on Kenyan soil, including those of four Europeans. The kidnappings greatly harmed Kenya's coastal tourism industry. | Al-Shabab has vowed to carry out a large-scale attack in Nairobi in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into neighbouring Somalia to fight the group. The Kenyan government blames al-Shabab for several kidnappings on Kenyan soil, including those of four Europeans. The kidnappings greatly harmed Kenya's coastal tourism industry. |
| Mohammed was acquitted in 2005 of murder charges for the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned tourist hotel near Mombasa, which killed more than 12 people. In conjunction with that attack, two surface-to-air missiles were fired at an Israeli-owned airliner packed with Israeli tourists as it took off from Mombasa. The missiles narrowly missed. | Mohammed was acquitted in 2005 of murder charges for the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned tourist hotel near Mombasa, which killed more than 12 people. In conjunction with that attack, two surface-to-air missiles were fired at an Israeli-owned airliner packed with Israeli tourists as it took off from Mombasa. The missiles narrowly missed. |
| Prosecutors at the trial said Mohammed had been in contact with Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, head of al-Qaida's East Africa operations, who the US said masterminded the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 231 people, including 12 Americans. A Somali soldier shot the al-Qaida leader dead at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia, last year. | Prosecutors at the trial said Mohammed had been in contact with Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, head of al-Qaida's East Africa operations, who the US said masterminded the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 231 people, including 12 Americans. A Somali soldier shot the al-Qaida leader dead at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia, last year. |
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