Abubakar Shariff Ahmed

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Abubakar Shariff Ahmed (born around 1961 in Mombasa ; died on April 1, 2014 in Shanzu Law Courts near Mombasa, Kenya ) was a Kenyan radical Islamic clergyman.

Shariff, also known as Makaburi ( Swahili , translated: "burial ground"), has been classified by the UN as a member of the al-Shabaab group , an Islamist militant al-Qaeda movement. He was considered a member of the Al-Hijra group. He was also considered a close colleague of Aboud Rogo . He was an opinion maker for Osama bin Laden and has been linked to a number of terrorist attacks, such as the 2013 Westgate shopping mall raid . His name has been on the United Nations sanctions list since August 2012.

On April 1, 2014, he was shot dead in the head and body by strangers near a prison. He should report there to take a subpoena to court. A member of the Anti Terrorism Police Unit (APTU), the counter-terrorism unit of the Kenyan police, has accused the German journalist Johanna Braun of extralegal killing Abubakar Shariff Ahmed .

The murder of Shariff is one of a series of previously unresolved violent deaths of prominent Muslim preachers in Kenya who were alleged to have won over young people to Islamist and terrorist ideas.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margot Kiser: Death Squads in Kenya's Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers , The Daily Beast , April 6, 2014 (accessed November 15, 2015).
  2. ↑ The Muslim cleric who predicted he would be killed , report on BBC News website , April 9, 2014, (accessed November 15, 2015).
  3. ↑ Security Council Committee on Somalia and Eritrea Adds Abubaker Shariff Ahmed , United Nations Security Council (SC / 10748).
  4. ↑ Extremist Kenyan Muslim cleric Makaburi shot dead ( Memento from April 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), The Times of India , April 2, 2014 (English)
  5. ↑ How terror arises. A feature about the escalation of violence . Production: WDR 2015. Series: ARD-Radio-Feature , query date: November 5, 2015; Script for the feature p. 20, query date: November 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ How terror arises. A feature about the escalation of violence . Production: WDR 2015. Series: ARD-Radio-Feature , query date: November 5, 2015; Script for the feature p. 22, query date: November 15, 2015.
  7. ↑ Kenya's war on terror is East Africa's looming nightmare , Mail & Guardian Online, April 3, 2014 (accessed November 15, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Ahmed, Abubakar Shariff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan radical Islamic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mombasa
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2014
Place of death Shanzu Law Courts near Mombasa, Kenya