Posted on 06/23/2006 7:57:37 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
"Hotel employees said the man had carried a Swedish passport and was accompanied by two colleagues, a man and a woman, both of whom were extremely distraught by the killing.
Several witnesses said the shooting may have been linked the publication by a Danish newspaper last year of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that enraged many in the Muslim world, including Somalia.
Mogadishu has been under the control of militia loyal to the city's Islamic courts since June 5 when they seized most of the capital, ousting a US-backed warlord alliance.
The situation has been tense with anti-US sentiment running high since. Demonstrators at Friday's rally burned the flags of the United States and Ethiopia, which the courts have accused of sending troops to back the warlords."
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Danish. Swedish. I guess we all look the same. No one seems to be saying whther he was filming or just watching. I'm curious which it was...
Yet another case where a journalist dies in suspicious circumstances! Funny how these guys who oppose BushCo end up dead all of a sudden. That just proves this administration will murder anyone who gets in their wa.............what? ........Somalia? Oh. Never mind.
An unknown gunman shot him in the chest at close range at a rally site in the southern part of the city where some 4,000 Islamists were demonstrating in support of the courts, the witnesses said.
"He was shot and killed while attending the rally," said Mohamed Amin, a Somali journalist who was at the scene.
"He died on the spot," Amin told AFP. A second witness said a gunman had shot the journalist in the chest, near his heart in deliberate fashion and that the surrounding crowd had scattered in panic.
"It was not an accident," the witness told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity citing security fears. "It was an intentional murder by someone who wanted to kill a journalist."
My what an unusual way to be killed. A white person in Mogadishu. Who'd have thunk it?
Another pic.
http://mypetjawa.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_mypetjawa_archive.html#115137256349758200
What do you make of the shoes?
This picture makes me nauseous. I don't care who it is.....savages killing someone like that is disgusting!!!
An Islamic insult. The sole of the foot (or shoe) is considered unclean and to show it or touch someone with it is a supreme insult.
That's my supposition as well.
Was it "youths" who did it?
Here's my guess - as he was dying, the youths hit him with their shoes. If one of our guys votes to give money to feed these monsters, I will vote against him. If a pol wants to enable these killers, they can do it with their own money.
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