Posted on 08/06/2008 10:52:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on Sunday killed at least 13 people, most of them women who were sweeping a street, witnesses said.
Residents said a remotely detonated device exploded in Waberi district along a main road leading to the presidential palace. Nearly 50 people were wounded...
Four people died in the emergency room at the main Madina hospital...
Insurgents have launched near-daily attacks on the transitional administration and its Ethiopian military allies. Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991.
On Friday a roadside bomb killed a Ugandan member of a small African Union peacekeeping force based in the capital.
Violence in the Horn of Africa nation has killed more than 8,000 civilians and driven 1 million more from their homes since allied Somali-Ethiopian forces kicked a hard-line Islamist group out of Mogadishu early last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at africa.reuters.com ...
But at least the U.N. has come out with a statement saying it deplores loss of life.
It is the will of Allah, don'tcha know.
COWARDS
Shall I be first to suggest that the “religon of peace” could be involved?
AP stories are postable again. But that’s not why I’m commenting.
Somalia’s people en masse desecrated our troops who were there to feed them and take down the worst of the warlords. Yes, Clinton screwed the pooch on the whole situation, but that does not change the basic facts above. So screw ‘em, they deserve the sh!th0le of a “nation” they have, except for those who were children at the time. On top of that, somalia is a witness to the RoP with free reign. Shock, it is a freaking nightmare.
> AP stories are postable again.
Hey, thanks, I didn’t know. I’m out of the loop around here.
What are the odds, really? ;’)
When you have Ugandan peace-keepers in your country, you know you know yo have serious problems.
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