Radical Muslim Cleric’s Son Arrested in Kenya as Suspected al-Shabaab Operative
ICC Note:
Aboud Rogo’s son was arrested in Kenya shortly after returning from Somalia where he received training to become an al-Shabaab operative. Al-Shabaab has committed a string of bombings on churches in Kenya and will continue to commit acts of violence until Kenya ends its military intervention in Somalia.
11/18/2012 Kenya (DailyNation) – The son of the late Muslim cleric Sheikh Aboud Rogo recently returned from Somalia where he trained as an Al-Shabaab fighter, police say.
Khubedi Rogo, 17, is said to have recently returned to Kenya from Somalia where he was with his father. Read (Rogo’s children arrested in raid)
“What we know is that this man was from Somalia together with his father. They trained together but his father left him there and returned to recruit more young men,” said Boniface Mwaniki, Head of Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.
According to police, Khubedi and his friend joined Al-Shabaab in 2006. His friend also happens to be the son of a terror suspect being held in connection with two attacks in Kampala, Uganda in 2010, which killed 74 people while watching a World Cup football match.
Khubedi and his friend were withdrawn from their respective schools in Mombasa and Nairobi and taken to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab.
Other security sources say that Khubedi, whom they suspect to be well trained in paramilitary as well as bomb assembling skills returned to Kenya after the killing of his father by unknown persons near Jomo Kenyatta public beach in Mombasa four months ago.
“He arrived in the country on August with an intention to revenge his father’s killing, which the family still believes was executed by security agencies,” said the source.
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