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Gunmen shoot dead a foreign nun in Mogadishu’s SOS hospital
Shabelle.Net ^ | September 17, 2006 | Aweys Osman Yusuf

Posted on 09/17/2006 4:20:33 AM PDT by MadIvan

Mogadishu 17, Sep. 06 ( Sh.M.Network) - Unidentified gunmen are reported to have raided Mogadishu’s SOS hospital and gunned down one of the foreign nuns in the hospital.

Reliable sources say the nun, thought to be an Italian, is confirmed dead. A bodyguard of the nun instantly died after he was fatally shot by two men reportedly armed with handguns.

Reports also indicate that the two assailants have been nabbed by armed guards within SOS hospital.

Six other suspects have also arrested as one of the Islamic Courts leaders Sheik Yusuf Indho-adde told reporters.

The motive of the attack remains unknown.

There has been a call for a demonstration against Pope Benedict XVI comment’s on Islam that sparked anger in all Muslim world by some Somali educated clerics. However, it is clearly not known if this fatal attack has anything to do with that.

This is the first time an Italian in SOS Somalia has been shot dead. The report over SOS attack is still sketchy as no reporters are allowed entry to SOS compound.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benedictxvi; headcutters; islamevilempire; jesushaters; koranimals; nun; pope; profiling; religionofpieces; rop; somalia; terrorism; throatslitters; trop; vatican; wot
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To: Mark was here
It's all about pleasing allah.

"Allah" has schizophrenic issues.

201 posted on 09/17/2006 11:23:29 AM PDT by madison10
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To: MadIvan
They're evil and must be destroyed.

These evil monsters make me question my belief that all life is valuable. These folks clearly have a negative worth.

202 posted on 09/17/2006 11:34:19 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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To: MadIvan

MI!!!


203 posted on 09/17/2006 11:35:48 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: kittymyrib

These barbarians "are incapable of being reasoned with."
Tell that to the Rats. They are still living in a dream world where these evil terrorists need the protection of our laws and they are reasonable people. It's just that the Bush administration doesn't know how to handle terrorists with diplomacy. If the American people buy this crapola on November 2, 2006, then we are doomed as a nation and deserve to be.


204 posted on 09/17/2006 11:39:01 AM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: NYer
A nun from the Missionaries order identified her as sister Leonella Sgorbati, born in 1940, in Piacenza in northern Italy. In Somalia since 2002, she trained nurses at the SOS Kindergarten hospital.

The Italian government said the nun and two other Italian nuns working with her had been repeatedly advised to leave Somalia, which was formerly ruled by Italy.

Sunday’s death provoked scenes of mourning at the hospital. “I was in class when I heard about six to eight shots, I ran out and saw sister bleeding,” Fatuma Hassan, 21, said. “We’re so sad. It’s a big loss.”

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RIP martyr for the faith

205 posted on 09/17/2006 11:40:26 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Miss Marple; Fred Nerks; USF; AmericanArchConservative; Just A Nobody
The press is becoming as much an enemy of civilization as the jihadists.

THE ENEMEDIA!!!!

206 posted on 09/17/2006 11:56:07 AM PDT by jan in Colorado (Never Forget! Never Retreat! Never Give Up!)
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To: goldstategop

Now we have help in heaven. When will they learn that all Christians are more dangerous dead than alive?

I like how they lost it right after Friday prayers... proving the point that wasn't the point in the first place. It was the relationship of faith and reason... it spoke more of our secularism than the snippet of an ancient dialogue years ago between a persian convert to Christianity and the Byzatine Manuel II. The pope even stated he was brusque in saying it... but nevermind... God forbid muslims would actually find out the subject and READ the text.

BTW, the pope said he regretted they were offended. The Muslim Brotherhood said that's not enough (they think he apologized, the MSM twisted it), they want him to apologize in person.

This pope will not kiss the Quran. Islam, this is a call for you to clean your house... take notice.


207 posted on 09/17/2006 11:57:54 AM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)
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To: MadIvan

Ivan!!! You're back!!!!

Boy, am I ever glad. FR just didn't seem the same without you (c;

Regarding this thread, it seems that the Pope's thesis is being proved in the violence we're beginning to see out of these butchers.

Truly, "violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul."


208 posted on 09/17/2006 11:58:31 AM PDT by Darnright (http://media.putfile.com/Webb-on-Allen)
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To: Tax-chick
When dealing with Islamists or Africans.....no good deed goes unpunished.......or appreciated.


All effort to "change" Africa or Islam is futile..
The world would be wiser to work toward accelerating both to their "fate"....

Semper Fi
209 posted on 09/17/2006 12:01:48 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: tiredoflaundry

I have a bad feeling they're going to make a try for him, t. And they'll use an IED instead of a gun, as they did on JP. May God watch over him...


210 posted on 09/17/2006 12:04:29 PM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: TomGuy

ROFL I'm sorry, but isn't beheading "violent?" The Islamists have no idea how insane they sound.


211 posted on 09/17/2006 12:08:45 PM PDT by madison10
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To: MadIvan
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/top.fullStory&sp=l51985

Orthodox Church Archbishop attacks 'Islamic fanatism'

September 17, 2006

JOHANNESBURG (AND) In yet another furore to grip the Christian community, the head of the Orthodox Church of Greece has joined the Pope controversy by attacking what he calls Islamic fanaticism in Africa.

In a scathing attack, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric called for Muslims to kill the Pope for his Tuesday utterances, Archbishop Christodoulos told a sermon in Athens that Christians in Africa were suffering at the hands of ‘fanatic Islamists'.

"Many Christians on the Black Continent (Africa) suffer from fanatic Islamists. The example of Roman Catholic monks who were slaughtered last year...because they wore the cross and believed in our crucified Lord is still recent,” said Christodoulos.

The Archbishop’s remarks come as the Muslim world is seething with anger over Pope Benedict XVI’s quoting of a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed (the Islamic supreme leader) were "evil and inhuman".

The Pope has already been forced in submitting that he was "deeply sorry" after hisremarks sparked outrage in the Muslim world, with Morocco calling back its envoy and Turkey casting doubts of Benedict’s scheduled visit in November – the first to a Muslim country.


212 posted on 09/17/2006 12:15:47 PM PDT by XR7
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To: TomGuy

They are chickenshits, to boot. Afraid to show their faces, lest the Moussad seek them out....(were that the case with the US also.)


213 posted on 09/17/2006 12:21:43 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: madison10

I was just thinking that with foxnews on at the gym. They have no idea how retarded their approach is.
day1-somebody offends them and they demand an apology
day2 they riot anyway without reading the story and waiting for an apology.
day3 the person apologises profuely and muslims riot and start fires anyway.
day4 muslims start killing innocent people or each other and reject the apology and demand another apology.
repeat ad infinitum


214 posted on 09/17/2006 12:26:02 PM PDT by omega4179 (Lets call terrorism extremism, then it would go away.../s)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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also Keywords 2006israelwar or WOT [War on Terror]

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215 posted on 09/17/2006 1:17:40 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: MadIvan
YAY, you're back!...Welcome back!

Beautiful homepage!

216 posted on 09/17/2006 1:31:54 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: MadIvan

First victims of the ROP's jihad on the Pope and Catholics? :*(


217 posted on 09/17/2006 1:34:39 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: mware
REST IN PEACE


218 posted on 09/17/2006 2:44:55 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: XR7

It's coming to this. Sad to see how many are blind about it in the United States. I guess it is the "well, at least they have not hit us since 9-11" ostrich syndrome, which of course appeals so much to the Democrats these days. There will be a RUDE awakening.


219 posted on 09/17/2006 2:46:35 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: NYer

The cowards! Emperor Manuel II was sure right.


220 posted on 09/17/2006 2:56:42 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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