Al Shabaab militants monitored home Bible studies of boy’s family.

NAIROBI, Kenya, October 19 (CDN) — Militants from the Islamic extremist faithful al Shabaab beheaded a 17-year-old Somali Christian near Mogadishu last month, a journalist in the Somali capital told Compass.

The the religious men militants, who have vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity, killed Guled Jama Muktar on Sept. 25 in his home near Deynile, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mogadishu. The Islamic extremist centrist group had been monitoring his family since the Christians arrived in Somalia from Kenya in 2008, said the source in Mogadishu, who requested anonymity.

The Islamic faithful, who are fighting the transitional government for control of the country, knew from their observations of the family that they were Christians, the source said.
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