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SHEIKH UMAL REACTION TO GARISSA UNIVERSITY KILLINGS
TRANSLATION
SHEIKH UMAL FRIDAY SERMON
Muslims are in need of peace and stability than any one else . If the security situation worsens and clashes break Muslims will be vulnerable, our women, businesses and everything will be affected
We are therefore the most yearning for security in this country
We hear in the news that they separated Muslims from Christians in the Garissa Attack
(Questions alshabab pretext that they targeted only non Muslims)
What about those university graduates in Mogadishu (referred to Shamo University Alshabab killings) Somalis in hotels and mosques who were killed in the same way ?
Were they not Muslims (this is a rhetoric question addressed to Alshabab leadership)
Why did they not get the right of separation of Christians and Muslims of Kenya?
The Attackers motives will not succeed
It is nor the time for our leaders to finger point and blame our madrasas and mosques, Its high time they (government and leaders) stand with us
We have never been with them (Alshabab) our madrasa and mosque are not a production house for terrorists
Those who do (attack and killings) have no knowledge of Islam
Why don't you blame institutions like Nairobi and Kenyatta University? Muslims have rights to Religion Education like anyone else
Translation by Salah Mohamed
Saturday, 4 April 2015
ALSHABAB MAN IN GARISSA ATTACK IS "A LAWYER AND SON OF A KENYA GOVERNMENT CHIEF"
One of the four Alshabab
militants who stormed Garissa university college killing 148 plus students has been
identified as Abdirahim Mohamed Abdullahi the son of a Kenya Government administrative Chief in Mandera
Abdirahim is a university of Nairobi Law graduate
and is described by a person who knows him well as a “brilliant upcoming lawyer”
Before his admission to the University of Nairobi where he studied Law LLB he was a student at WAMY High School and scored an A in KCSE in 2007 according to one of his teachers
“He is the man in stripped shirts. He graduated from the University
of Nairobi in 2013” a source based in Mandera known to Abdirahim and family told me
“He is the son of Chief Daqara” he concluded
Abdullahi Daqara is the
Chief of Bulla Jamhuri in Mandera county
A second source who identified himself as Abdirahim's English teacher at Wamy High said he was an obedient student
"I taught him. He was a very close friend before he got radicalized" said the teacher. Wamy is one of the best performing private schools in Kenya and appeared on the top 100 best schools in 2014 KCSE topping in Biology nationwide
"He was one year behind me at Wamy.He was very bright and intelligent guy wallahi.I knew that he had joined Alshabab but i didnt expect him to kill those innocent lives" another former schoolmate told me
"the guy used to be humble and harmless" a fourth source a University friend of the slain militant told me
"he always looked busy with Law Books" the shocked friend added
A second source who identified himself as Abdirahim's English teacher at Wamy High said he was an obedient student
"I taught him. He was a very close friend before he got radicalized" said the teacher. Wamy is one of the best performing private schools in Kenya and appeared on the top 100 best schools in 2014 KCSE topping in Biology nationwide
"He was one year behind me at Wamy.He was very bright and intelligent guy wallahi.I knew that he had joined Alshabab but i didnt expect him to kill those innocent lives" another former schoolmate told me
"the guy used to be humble and harmless" a fourth source a University friend of the slain militant told me
"he always looked busy with Law Books" the shocked friend added
The bodies of the slain Alshabab militants were publicly
displayed by authorities in Garissa town after residents demands
Abdirahim is said to have opted to cross over to join Alshabab after efforts to join Islamic State in Syria became impossible as he had no passport
Abdirahim's class mate and best friend at Wamy High School named Mohamed "Atom" managed to fly to Turkey and cross over into Syria to join IS. Atom hails from Rhamu, Mandera
A classmate of Mohamed Atom whom I will only identify as Aboud told me in an interview about the only known Kenyan IS fighter
"This Mohamed Atom was my classmate. he wasn't that religious alikuwa anachonga (Chewed Khat) na kunywa pombe (drunk alcohol)" Aboud said
"The last time I saw him was back in 2012 in Mombasa. He was speaking a lot about jihad. He used to come to Mombasa from Nairobi for lectures at Masjid Musa" Aboud recalls
Atom dropped out of an undergraduate course at the University of Nairobi to chase for his Jihadi dream in Syria
A third close friend and classmate at Wamy named Khalid Mohamed nicknamed "Calypso" joined Alshabab together with Abdirahim.
Khalid graduated from the University of Nairobi University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree
Abdirahim had previously had a stint as a Legal officer at a Kenyan bank according to one of his College mates

The above photo was taken at a Kenya Commission of Administrative Justice function in Nairobi
Abdirahim had also served as a Census clerk back in 2009
This is Chief Abdullahi of Bulla Jamhuri Reaction
" I have buried Rahim long ago but the fact that his own blood took the lives of 100 innocent lives gives him enough regrets in live that has forever taken away his hopes of living humbly" as issued by a close family member
These are past tweets by Abdirahim in 2009 2010 among persons he followed was Tennis champion Serena Williams
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