Posted on 07/05/2006 10:53:06 AM PDT by Wiz
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday.
The hard-line Muslim fighters, who have banned watching television, opened fire after a crowd of teenagers defied their orders to leave a hall where a businessman was showing Tuesday's Germany-Italy match on satellite television, according to Shabelle Radio, an independent local station. It said the businessman and a teenage girl were killed.
Hard-line Muslim fighters, who wrested control of the Somali capital from warlords in June, have forbidden people from watching television or movies in line with their strict interpretation of Islam.
The militants of the Supreme Islamic Courts Council, who have established control in much of the south, have recently moved into parts of central Somalia, including the Mudug region where Tuesday's shooting occurred.
The leader of their group, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has spent the past weeks in central Somalia recruiting fighters in his clan's native region.
Washington has accused the Islamic group of harboring al-Qaida leaders responsible for deadly 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Somalia has been without an effective government since largely clan-based warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on each other, dividing the nation into a patchwork of rival fiefdoms.
A U.N.-backed transitional government is established only in the southern town of Baidoa, where leaders on Wednesday met officials from a regional East African group, the African Union, European Union and the Arab League to discuss plans for deploying peacekeepers.
The 24-member delegation held talks with President Abdullahi Yusuf, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi and parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden.
The team is expected to visit Mogadishu Thursday for talks with the Islamic group that controls the city and opposes the deployment of peacekeepers.
I wonder how this is going to run on the liberal networks.
"Tonight we have a report of an unfortunate incident that allegedly took place in a home where it is reported that two men were perhaps watching a sporting event on the telly when local law enforcement officials, acting on a tip from a neighbor, invaded the house to investigate a possible drug violation. The law enforcement officers reported that one man appeared to reach for a weapon and so the law enforcement officers, acting in accordance with their training to not take chances, opened fire, killing the man suspected of reaching for a weapon, and accidentally fatally wounding the other man who was also present. The local police office issued a statement saying that they were acting in accordance with their instuctions to keep the neighborhood free of illegal activities. More details at 11."
Once the autopsy confirms that the two weren't simply bored to death, this should be roundly denounced.
Bad news. An article in yesterday's FR said the Taliban is Afghanistanizing Somalia, having a free-for-all in a governmentless country.
Another front in The War On Terror.
Did anyone really think life would be better in Somalia once the islamics takeover? Somalia = Taliban-run Afghanistan
I'll give them that. But I bet they all suffer from depression.
Paging Aah-wec Bawd-win... paradise awaiting in Somalia...
(...the sound of crickets chirping...)
KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo. Religion of Peace Alert! KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo.
I guess Sudan is now qualified to serve on the UN's Human Rights subcommittee. KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo KuoKuo.
and f'ed it up totally
that's a fact...
Some leftist will undoubtedly burn a U.S. flag in protest of this heinous act in Somalia.
The hottest spot in hell is reserved for those who are destined to be re-born a muzzie. What worse fate could there be?
Isn't the guy in charge in Mogadishu wanted as an Al-queda operative by the US?
And didn't have the common sense to send a mechanized company and a few Apaches to get the job done right.
I do believe I read that in the same article, yes.
If the talaban think they're safe in Africa, they should think again! Next stop, Somalia. Go get 'em boys!
Great. Another 3rd world hellhole filled with a never ending vortex of tribalism and hate. Sounds like a perfect nation building opportunity. (rolls eyes)
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