[MadIvan]

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Italian nun killed in Mogadishu

Gunmen have shot dead an Italian nun in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and medical workers have said.

The attackers shot the nun three times in the back in a hospital in the south of the city, also killing her bodyguard before fleeing the scene.

The nun, who has not been named, is believed to be in her seventies.

It is unclear whether the shooting is connected with strong criticism by radical Somali clerics about the Pope's recent comments on Islam.

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Yes it is bloody clear. It just gets worse.

[TomGuy]

The attackers shot the nun three times in the back

News agencies will probably appeasingly alter that in the back part when CAIR and other Islamic groups start their whining about the terminology.

[lentulusgracchus]

Two Moo's with Kalashnikovs on one elderly nun seems like a fair fight to me, how about you?

Wise precaution, to have shot her in the back. Otherwise, she might have cranked off a couple of rounds on her rosary beads.

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They sure made a liar out of Pope Benedict and the late Emperor Manuel, didn't they?

[Carling]

Pretty much validates what the Pope was saying. Can he retract his apology?

[Enchante]

"The attackers shot the nun three times in the back in a hospital ....The nun .... is believed to be in her seventies."

Well, let's see, unless a septagenarian nun has found reason to forsake morality and law to join an organized crime syndicate, there is exactly ONE plausible motive for this horrendous and inhuman crime..... only Islamo-fascists and gangsters engage in these kinds of abominations, and somehow I suspect we are not talking about Russian mafia here.

[ELS]

The attackers shot the nun three times in the back in a hospital in the south of the city, also killing her bodyguard before fleeing the scene.

Not only are they barbarians, but they are cowards. They can't even kill an unarmed woman to her face. No doubt about it. Their "god" is Lucifer.

[khnyny]

Actually, the latest update is that the Italian Nun was shot four times, not three, in the back. Shooting a 73 year-old Nun in the back, in a hospital that is aiding Muslim children. I think everyone really needs to think long and hard about this one.

[ariamne]

This is about what I've come to expect from people who machine gun children hiding under beds or running in terror. Barbarians.