Aboud Rogo Mohammed before the Mombasa Chief Magistrate where he was charged for being in possession of illegal firearms in this file photo. He had been a peripheral figure in the radical Islamist world for years until the serious planning for the 2002 attacks began.
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Very early on that day, he called one of his closest friends Said Abubaker Shariff Ahmed alias Makaburi and told him that he planned to spend much of the day with his wife.
A family source says they noticed a car tracking their vehicle but did not pay much attention because this had become a familiar sight.
The car had followed them for some time but Rogo was largely untroubled because he was with his family and he thought that an attempt on his life in front of his daughters, wife and father was unlikely.
But, as they approached the Pirates Beach Club on the Mombasa-Malindi highway, a car overtook them and blocked their way. Then shots were fired at the driver’s side where Rogo was sitting.
Sheikh Aboud Rogo had grown increasingly fearful for his safety since being listed as a terror mastermind by the US Government but, on the day he met his death, he was quite relaxed.
Friends and relatives who spoke to the Sunday Nation say Sheikh Rogo was focused on getting his wife, Haniya Said Sagal, to hospital on Monday, August 27.
