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  • Residents observe the remains of their houses which were burned down during clashes in Chamwanamuma village, Tana River delta, north of Mombasa in Kenya Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Fighting between a community of cattle herders and farmers over land and water killed 12 people there on Friday, the Kenya Red Cross said, adding that while the two communities periodically clash over resources this incident may also have politically instigated because it fits a pattern of violence which has occurred in three previous elections. (AP Photo)

    In Mombasa, Islamic radicalism on rise

    Hard-line Muslim clerics. Young people who feel marginalized. Suspicions that police are responsible for the killings and forced disappearances of extremists. Those elements created a combustible mixture that exploded into rioting Aug. 27, after Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a Muslim preacher accused of links to an Islamist terrorist group in neighboring Somalia, was riddled with bullets as he drove his wife to a hospital for a checkup.


  • Residents observe the remains of their houses which were burned down during clashes in Chamwanamuma village, Tana River delta, north of Mombasa in Kenya Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Fighting between a community of cattle herders and farmers over land and water killed 12 people there on Friday, the Kenya Red Cross said, adding that while the two communities periodically clash over resources this incident may also have politically instigated because it fits a pattern of violence which has occurred in three previous elections. (AP Photo)

    In Mombasa, Islamic radicalism on rise

    Hard-line Muslim clerics. Young people who feel marginalized. Suspicions that police are responsible for the killings and forced disappearances of extremists.


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