Posted on 09/25/2006 2:29:24 PM PDT by Khepera
KISMAYO, Somalia (Reuters) - Islamist fighters in the Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
A 13-year-old boy was shot dead while protesting, and two other people were injured as violence raged for several hours in Somalia's third biggest city, witnesses said.
"We have been taken over by extremists, the Islamic courts have taken us by force, and now they are firing at us," protester Dahabo Dirie said.
Riding trucks with machine guns, the Islamists guarded main streets and forbade gatherings after the protests died down.
The Mogadishu-based Islamists poured into Kismayo overnight to extend their grip on south-central Somalia and effectively flank the powerless central government on three sides.
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yeah I'm surprised our terrorist sympathetice media didn't entitle it: "Allah's Warriors Smite Infidel Child-Demon During Glorious Liberation of Port"
Frankly, I couldn't care less. Let them kill each other. Even if the 'moderates' were to somehow overthrow the 'radicals' you'd still have an Islamic government and Somalia would remain a cesspool for decades to come. They aren't worth the trouble. I feel bad for the kid, but this is the Islamic way.
Six months ago the MSM was publishing stories about how much calmer and more orderly Mogadishu had become under the Islamists. Such a positive change from the anarchy and crime under the warlords.
But it was predictable that sooner rather than later the Islamists would adopt the methods of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, as they always do.
And so they are.
"...Islamic militiamen wearing white headbands opened fire on several thousand people demonstrating against them in the port of Kismayo, 260 miles southwest of Mogadishu, killing a 13-year-old boy, said resident Abdiqadir Filibin."
Coming soon to a Dearborn near us?
Call Bill Clinton asap...
Well Im sure there will be muslim outrage over this just like over the Pope.
Now this would have never occurred if only the U.S. had never liberated Iraq.
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