{"id":26211,"date":"2016-06-20T01:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/al-shabab-confirms-death-of-garissa-attack-leader\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T01:52:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:52:47","slug":"al-shabab-confirms-death-of-garissa-attack-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/al-shabab-confirms-death-of-garissa-attack-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab confirms death of Garissa attack leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Mohamed Ali, whose death was declared by officials on June 1, allegedly organised deadly 2015 raid on Kenyan university.}<\/p>\n<p>Somalia&#8217;s armed group al-Shabab has confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya&#8217;s Garissa University that left 148 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of Mohamed Mohamud Ali, also known as Dulyadin, was announced by Somali officials on June 1, and al-Shabab confirmed his death with the release of an obituary on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia&#8217;s armed group al-Shabab has confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya&#8217;s Garissa University that left 148 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of Mohamed Mohamud Ali, also known as Dulyadin, was announced by Somali officials on June 1, and al-Shabab confirmed his death with the release of an obituary on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The April 2015 assault at Garissa University College, 365km northeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, left 148 people dead, 142 of them students.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were slain in their dormitories or rounded up and executed in a hall of residence.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was carried out by four al-Shabab fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was the bloodiest in Kenya since al-Qaeda bombed the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998, killing 213 people.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, the Kenyan government said Mohamud Ali had been killed in a US drone strike, but it later backtracked on the claim.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12897 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bcd3fa99b0584cef948e09acb686105b_18.jpg\" alt=\"Shabab said the commander also known as &#039;Kuno&#039; and &#039;Gamadhere&#039; was killed by &quot;US crusaders&quot; \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Mohamed Ali, whose death was declared by officials on June 1, allegedly organised deadly 2015 raid on Kenyan university.} Somalia&#8217;s armed group al-Shabab has confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya&#8217;s Garissa University that left 148 people dead. The killing of Mohamed Mohamud Ali, also known as Dulyadin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26211"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26211"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}