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Death by Tabloid
Xan Rice – The Atlantic, 12 Sep 2011

After running the story identifying gay activist David Kato (bludgeoned to death with a hammer shortly after), [Ugandan] Rolling Stone published a piece headlined “Homo Generals Plotted Kampala Terror Attacks.” The “intelligence exclusive” alleged that a gay lobby conspired with al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist group, to plot the July 2010 suicide bombings in Kampala that killed 76 people. Showing me the story, Muhame leans forward and softly says, “See, there’s a link between homosexuals and terror.”

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