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It's Al Shabaab, not Islam under attack, Sheikh Ali

Njoroge Kinuthia

Sheikh Ahmed Iman Ali eerily reminds PointBlank of Osama bin Laden. And it's not hard to tell why. The former chairman of Muslim Youth Centre in Pumwani who is now fighting Kenyan forces alongside the Al Shabaab in Somalia has an ‘Osamarish’ mien about him. He wears a caumoflage jacket and a turban, speaks in a calm calculated drawl and has a goatee, though much shorter than bin Laden’s signature beard.

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