{"id":10841,"date":"2013-10-04T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2013-10-04T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:57:49","slug":"radical-muslim-cleric-and-3-others-gunned-down-in-kenyan-port-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10841","title":{"rendered":"Radical Muslim cleric and 3 others gunned down in Kenyan port city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mombasa_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10844\" alt=\"mombasa_map\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mombasa_map-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mombasa_map-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mombasa_map.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gunmen opened fire on a car in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, killing four people, including a radical Muslim cleric, a media report said Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail, was seen as the successor to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a radical preacher who was gunned down in August last year, sparking unrest in Mombasa, including attacks on churches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rogo was on US and UN sanctions lists for his alleged links to the Somali militant group al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nation newspaper quoted police as saying Ismail and four others were traveling in a car from mosque on Thursday evening when the incident took place. Only one passenger survived the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Shabaab claimed last month&#8217;s attack on the Westgate shopping centre, which left at least 72 people dead, including 61 civilians, six soldiers and five assailants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigations into the attack are ongoing. &#8211; dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen opened fire on a car in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, killing four people, including a radical Muslim cleric, a media report said Friday. The cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail, was seen as the successor to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a radical preacher who was gunned down in August last year, sparking unrest in Mombasa, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radical Muslim cleric and 3 others gunned down in Kenyan port city&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[6723,1888,6531,5066,1643,6721,40,6724,6722],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-aboud-rogo-mohammed","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-assassination","tag-kenya","tag-mombasa","tag-murder","tag-muslim-cleric","tag-sheikh-ibrahim-ismail"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mombasa_map.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}