{"id":30140,"date":"2019-01-22T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30140"},"modified":"2019-01-22T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:24:23","slug":"former-al-shabaab-fighter-recognizes-familiar-face-in-nairobi-hotel-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30140","title":{"rendered":"Former al-Shabaab fighter recognizes familiar face in Nairobi hotel attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)<\/cite>He chose to join a terrorist group, fought for it, was blooded in atrocities, escaped and repented. Now he lives in well-founded fear for his life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Not least because the day after al-Shabaab militants<a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/16\/africa\/kenya-hotel-complex-terror-attack\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> attacked the Dusit Hotel complex in Nairobi,<\/a> the former al-Shabaab fighter we&#8217;ll call &#8220;Musa&#8221; realized he had met one of the terrorists, seven years earlier, in Somalia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ali Salim Gichunge, a thick-set Kenyan militant, was caught on security camera footage during the 20-hour attack on the Dusit and was killed alongside three other gunmen by Kenyan special forces. Authorities have since arrested a number of people allegedly connected to Gichunge.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)He chose to join a terrorist group, fought for it, was blooded in atrocities, escaped and repented. Now he lives in well-founded fear for his life.Not least because the day after al-Shabaab militants attacked the Dusit Hotel complex in Nairobi, the former al-Shabaab fighter we&#8217;ll call &#8220;Musa&#8221; realized he had met one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}