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.
Do they have the F.B.I. Office of Public Affairs working over THERE, too????
That was my first thought, too. Nuns in a hospital need bodyguards. What a country.
And the actions of the evildoers are proving him correct in less than 48 hours.
That which is not of God, i.e, evil, is not of reason nor can it be reasoned with.
The only demand of the fanatics is that we become Muslim. There are no other 'negotiating points' than this. It is we enroll under the Crescent Moon and Star Society, or we be shot down like this nun in Africa.
See post 20. She was shot 3 times in the back. The nun was in her 70's.
The terrorists show once more they pick on the weak, the vulnerable, the very young and the very old. They're evil and must be destroyed.
They are simply incompatable with civilization.
It's good to see you back Mad Ivan, the place feels a little more like home with you here:)
I fear for the safety of the Holy Father.
Ivan, glad to see you again. I have missed you!
Fox News just had this on. It happened in Somali. So sad.
Don't tell me that Catholics are going to be blown away now............
The New York Times cannot tell me otherwise.
The offended C.A.I.R. types in the US can shove it.
Nobody can tell me I don't see what I am seeing with my own two eyes. Millions of Americans can see it too.
The cut and run Democrats, positioning themselves before a fatigued and impatient American electorate, will not like it when the Americans actually wake up and realize what is at stake and that the Democrat approach of cut and run will only hasten our own Western demise.
This story, in all its ugliness, needs to be screamed from one end of the globe to another. It merely proves what Manuel II Paleologus said was absolutely correct.
The Islamic world apparently has no sense of irony.
"...I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," he told pilgrims at his Castelgandolfo summer residence.
"These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought. I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with mutual respect," he said.
Those filthy bastards. What repulsive beings. They may not be the ones personally committing these atrocities but they are just as evil.
We are no different than anyone else who rejects the bastards cult.
Theres only one way this is goig to end, and thats with the elimination of islam and the removal from the gene pool of it's most rabid followers.
Shooting a nun in the back is monstrous indeed. It's shocking.
sw
Witnesses: Italian nun killed in Somalia
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia - An Italian nun was fatally shot Sunday at the hospital where she worked, eyewitnesses said Sunday.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the shooting, according to the Islamic militia that controls Mogadishu.
"The nun was shot in the back," said Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, who witnessed the shooting at the S.O.S. Hospital. "She died of her injuries."
The nun's bodyguard was also killed, doctors at the hospital told The Associated Press.
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