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| Sheikh Aboud Rogo killed on the 27th August 2012 |
A British investigative journalist, Namir Shabibit has disclosed how the Britain Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, better known as MI6) and America’s CIA have been funding a covert Kenyan paramilitary team, the Rapid Response Team (RRT) to do the dirty job on their behalf. They are armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence, the team is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects. The killing or capture of Muslim clerics at the Kenyan coast has never been fully explained by the government. It turns out that there exists a covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence community whose main job is to carry out renditions and killings of terror suspects.
Members of the Rapid Response Team
Below is a list of more than 14 Muslim clerics whose violent deaths remain a mystery.
1. Sheikh Mohammed Kassim died on the 10th April 2012, he was linked to the Machakos Country bus blast in which six people died and over 60 were injured, Mohammed Kassim’s body was found in a Kilifi mortuary several kilometers from his Mombasa home.
2. Sheikh Samir Khan died on 13rd April 2012, his body was found dumped, and mutilated, in Tsavo Forest in Taita Taveta County along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway three days after he was reported missing.
3. Sheikh Aboud Rogo died on the 27th August 2012 he was on US and UN sanctions lists for allegedly supporting Somalia's al-Shabab militants.
4. Omar Faraj and Titus Nabiswa both died on the 29th October 2012, Omar Faraj 30 was a Muslim youth leader while Titus Nabiswa 27 a Muslim convert from western Kenya, and they died in what is alleged to have been a shoot-out with the police.
5. Kassim Omollo died on the 27th June 2013, the Anti-Terror Police Unit described Kassim Omollo, who was gunned down in Bakarani estate, Mombasa, as an al-Shabab trainer, a bomb expert and an accomplice of both British terror suspect Jermaine Grant.
6. Salim Mohammed Nero died on the 27th June 2013; he was allegedly killed in what police described as a shoot-out between them and Nero in Kiembeni estate, Mombasa.
7. Sheikh Ibrahim Omar Ismail, Gadaffi Mohammed (Shebe), Omar Aburumesia and Issa Abdalla died on the 3rd October 2013, Sheikh Ibrahim Omar Ismail was driving along the Mombasa-Malindi highway when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle. Three friends in the vehicle also died on the spot - Gadaffi Mohammed (also known as Shebe), Omar Aburumesia and Issa Abdalla.
8. Faiz Mohammed Rufai died on the 3rd December 2013, Faiz Mohammed Rufai was a madrassa teacher in Malindi and a close friend of Ahmed Bakshueni, was found dumped on Mamburui beach in Magarini in early December of that year.
9. Sheikh Suleiman Mwayuyu died on the 6th December 2013 after being shot dead when unknown gunmen hijacked a minibus travelling from Mombasa to Ukunda.
10. Ahmed Abdalla Bakshueni died on the 28th January 2014 when three gunmen riding on a motorbike shot him dead he was a youth leader, he was shot about 200m from Malindi police station.
11. Sheikh Makaburi died on 1st April 2014; he was a prominent leader at the controversial Masjid Musa Mosque, the scene of frequent unrest in Mombasa.
12. Sheikh Mohammed Idriss died on the 10th June 2014 when unknown gunmen shot and killed the then Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) chairman in Mombasa.
13. Shahid Bhat 11th July 2014 was killed when driving from Mombasa’s Moi Airport.
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