{"id":49252,"date":"2015-04-07T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_kenyans_try_to_trace_a_students_path_to_terrorism\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:18:36","slug":"nyt_kenyans_try_to_trace_a_students_path_to_terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49252","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Kenyans Try to Trace a Student\u2019s Path to Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdia Noor Abdi sat in the yard, exhausted after all the questions from the authorities. When she saw the face of her son on the front page of a daily newspaper, she pushed it aside and began to tear up.<\/p>\n<p>He was not poor or marginalized, and did not seem especially angry. He strutted around in $200 suits, the son of a local chief.<\/p>\n<p>But now her son, Abdirahim Abdullahi, has been identified as one of the four gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university in eastern Kenya last week, the authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Once a promising student himself, Mr. Abdullahi was killed along with the other gunmen as Kenyan forces stormed the campus in Garrisa. Police officers later paraded his naked, bullet-riddled body in the back of a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a polite and obedient son,\u201d\u009d his mother said. \u201cWe are in shock.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/07\/world\/africa\/kenyans-try-to-trace-a-students-path-to-shabab-terrorism.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdia Noor Abdi sat in the yard, exhausted after all the questions from the authorities. When she saw the face of her son on the front page of a daily newspaper, she pushed it aside and began to tear up.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49252\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,202,426,329,155,108,34,124,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-islam","category-kenya","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}