Somalia: To Beat Al Shabaab Kenya Must Expel Its Religious Leader 'Sheikh Hassaan' From Nairobi

25 September 2013
opinion

Over the last 2 years Kenya has been one of the few countries successful in its military engagement with Al-Shabaab - expelling the Al-Qaeda affiliate from Kismayo, Somalia's third largest city.

However, the Kenyan government has also been tolerating the presence of a young Somali-Kenyan radical cleric by the name of Hassan Mahad Omar AKA Hassaan Hussein Adam "Abu Salman" who is considered the unofficial mufti (a religious scholar who interprets the sharia) of Al-Shabaab.

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