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“Doctor with US charity killed in Somalia”
June 28 2007 at 10:35AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mogadishu - Gunmen killed a doctor working with a US charity and his driver in southern Somalia, officials and residents said on Thursday, highlighting the continuing insecurity in the shattered nation.
Mohamed Muse Ali, 40, a doctor with the International Medical Corps (IMC) was slain late on Wednesday in El-Berde, about 400 kilometres northwest of the capital Mogadishu, they said.
“He was returning to his house from office when armed men shot him,” Mohamed Ahmed, an IMC officer in the nearby Hodur township, told AFP by telephone.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12597&Itemid=21
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070629-04
June 29, 2007
Bomb-making materials, weapons seized from two Rashid District mosques
4th IBCT, 1st Inf. Div. Public Affairs
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers entered two mosques in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital June 27-28 and uncovered two weapons caches.
Early in the morning June 27, Company A, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, and Iraqi Security Forces entered the Al Mahada Mosque in the Saydiyah portion of the city and found eight AK-47s with 40 magazines and body armor.
On June 28, the same company entered Al-Sadiq Mosque in the same neighborhood and found six AK-47s and one bag of hand grenades buried in the courtyard.
Inside the mosque, they found one PKM machine gun, one PKC machine gun, one drum of PKM ammunition, 22 assault rifle magazines, one expended rocket-propelled grenade booster, seven demolition boosters, 30 feet of detonation cord, one stick of dynamite, two RPG warheads, 10 blocks of TNT, one 122mm mortar round, one sniper scope, three RPG fins, 14 blasting caps, more than 500 loose 7.62mm rounds, six pressure switches, six timers, 12 9-volt batteries, one 6-volt battery and assorted communications devices.
The cache, enough to build numerous roadside bombs, was destroyed by an explosive ordnance disposal unit.
Under Iraqi law, citizens are allowed one assault rifle and one 30-round magazine for protection.
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