Na semana em que a Nigéria elege seu novo presidente, Muhammadu Buhari (nem tão novo, pois já ocupara o comando do país após um golpe militar nos anos 80), que promete ser implacável com o Boko Haram, o Quênia sofre brutal violência jihadista, perpetrada pelo grupo de base somali al-Shabaab. O ataque, contra estudantes da Universidade de Garissa, no nordeste do país, teria vitimado quase uma centena de pessoas, basicamente cristãos, e seria represália pelo engajamento das forças quenianas no combate a extremistas.
Como falamos em outro post, o jihadismo é um fenômeno reacionário, e, como tal, inimigo a ser combatido sem trégua pela classe trabalhadora. Não se pode esquecer, todavia, que apesar dos discursos hipócritas do Ocidente é o próprio imperialismo mundial que fomenta o fenômeno, direta -fornecendo armas e recursos contra inimigos "em comum", como o apoio aos jihadistas sírios contra Assad- e indiretamente -pela revolta, miséria e falta de perspectivas, impostas às juventudes dos países sob tacão imperialista, fazendo com que, na falta de um partido progressista de vanguarda, se voltem para doutrinas reacionárias.
O texto a seguir, retirado aqui, é sobre Mohamed Mohamud, dirigente da al-Shabaab e suposto mentor intelectual do recente ataque.
Kenya Garissa University attack: What do we know about al-Shabaab leader Mohamed Mohamud named as mastermind behind the atrocity?
SAM MASTERS Thursday 02 April 2015
Mohamed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin or Gamadhere, is a teacher of terror.
Well known to Kenyan authorities before today’s attack, he is reported to have been a military commander, based in Mogadishu, and is thought to have become the man responsible for leading al-Shabaab’s attacks within Kenya. Last month he was named the person who had sent 12 terrorists to plot an attack against the Kenyan parliament in Nairobi. He is also listed as being subject to asset freezes in Britain.
Shortly before Christmas, Kenyan police circulated images of two terror suspects with a reward offered for any information leading to their arrests. One of them was Mohamud.
Gideon Kimilu, deputy director of the Kenya Police Criminal Investigation Department in Nairobi, said the two are believed to be behind attacks including that on a bus in Mandera on the Somali border when 28 non-Muslims were murdered in November. Ten days later, 36 non-Muslim quarry workers were murdered.
“He commands the militia along the border and is responsible for cross-border incursions in the country,” police said. Mohamud had intensified attacks in northern Kenya and the coastal region before Christmas. He is reported to have three wives.
Police said he became a principal at the Madrasa Najah Islamic School in Garissa between 1997 and 2000 where his “extremist tendencies became more manifest”.
He joined al-Shabaab about 15 years ago. He is believed to have an extensive terror network within Kenya, particularly at the Dadaab refugee camp.
