Assassinations of Muslim Clerics in Kenya ‘Boosting al Shabaab’

The killings of popular Muslim clerics in Kenya's port city of Mombasa is strengthening support for Somali militants who massacred at least 67 people in a Nairobi shopping mall two weeks ago, a prominent Islamist said on Saturday. The apparent assassination of Sheikh Ibrahim Omar on Thursday night raised religious tensions in Kenya's commercial and tourism hub. Young Muslims, streaming out of a mosque where Omar had preached, torched a church, burned tires and fought the ...

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