Kenya: A New Breed of Terrorist Is Born

28 October 2011

The man jailed for life on Friday after pleading guilty to grenade attacks in Nairobi is representative of a new breed of Al-Shabaab recruits Kenyan security agents are fighting in the war on terror.

The new conscripts of the Somali-based extremist group are mainly upcountry youth and recent converts to Islam, typical of Elgiva Bwire Oliacha, alias Mohamed Saif.

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