| 2 Somalis killed for watching World Cup (nightmare of Taliban regime revives in Somalia) |
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| Posted by Wiz On News/Activism 07/05/2006 12:53:06 PM CDT · 36 replies · 992+ views Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2006 Jul 6 | Salad Duhul 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... |
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Agreed, they got off easy. Perhaps it was because they were teenagers, although if my fuzzy recollection serves, wasn't 50 lashes regarded as a death sentence for a man in the Old British Navy?
They are only allowed to smoke pot before blowing up a bus.