I see that the MP for Mogadishu...
Oh what NOW! (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I see that the MP for Mogadishu East, Kerry Mccarthy, won't allow me to post this on her website. No sense of humour! Posted here earlier Do I care? Do I hell.
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Deadly journey: Minneapolis to Mogadishu
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The BBC's Jonathan Beale travels to Minneapolis to investigate reports of teenagers from the city's immigrant Somali community going missing and turning up dead in Somalia. Could they have been recruited by militant Islamists?
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Al-Shabab Terror Group Recruiting Somalis In Minneapolis
The Whig (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC: Deadly journey: Minneapolis to Mogadishu Minneapolis is very different from Mogadishu. Yet it is home to the largest group of Somali refugees in the country - more than 60,000 of them. It may seem like an odd place to settle if you are from the Horn of Africa. Over the past 18 months as many as 20 young Somali men have left the comfort of their new home in America to return to a war-torn Somalia....
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Somalia: Sharif - 'I Am Sorry for the Misunderstand Between TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna'
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna.
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Photo of the day: Ringtone mind control
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
November 20, 2009 Mogadishu, Somalia. As usual there are a group of “devout muslims” aka terrorists wearing sandals and holding guns – one with the picnic tablecloth hiding his face – standing guard after they’ve taken over by force. And they started right in on the mind control. SACDIYO SHEEQ, a resident of Kismayu in southern Somalia, on [...]
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Pastor shot, killed on way home from worship
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two masked members of the al-Shabaab Muslim militia shot and killed a pastor in Somalia as he drove home from a worship service, according to reports. Mogadishu pastor Ali Hussein Weheliye was killed in the attack in October, but reports of the incident didn't come out until this week. Experts at the missions think-tank the Joshua Project estimate Somalia is 99 percent Muslim. International Christian...
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Somalia: Two Government Soldiers Killed, More Wounded in Fire Exchange in Mogadishu
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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Somali pirates free UAE-owned cargo ship: trader
Reuters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed a United Arab Emirates-owned cargo ship after negotiations with businessmen in the anarchic country's capital, one businessman said on Thursday.
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Roy Greenslade: Two journalists shot and wounded in Somalia
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Two journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in Somalia. On Tuesday, Voice of America reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the shoulder by a police officer just after being stopped at a police checkpoint. And yesterday, Abdirahman Warsame of Xinhua news agency was hit by a stray bullet while standing outside a hospital in Mogadishu. He was covering the fighting that continues...
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Somali Piracy Continues Expanding
Information Dissemination (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
To help understand the point, right click the image to the right and open in a new window. Every icon on the map represents a hijacking this year, and you may be able to make out the month to observe the patterns. The big yellow arrow... lets examine those three in order going from right to left. BW Lion attacked on 11/9/2009 Somali pirates have launched their furthest attack in the Indian Ocean thus...
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Somali Woman Stoned to Death After Being Convicted of Adultery
lockandload (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Islam in action. This is the purest Islam. The most pious following of the Pedophile Mohammed. FROM BLOOMBERG.COM: Somali Woman Stoned to Death After Being Convicted of Adultery By Hamsa Omar Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- A Somali woman was stoned to death after being found guilty of adultery in breach of Islamic law. Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a 29-year-old married woman, was executed after confessing to...
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Islam: Solid gold interpretation …
DiveDesk-Log (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
… of sharia law. According to reports from a small village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to her waist. The Islamists want to impose a strict version of Sharia on Somalia. She was then stoned [...]
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Woman Stoned to Death by Islamic Supremacists
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Somali woman stoned for adultery A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people. A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man. He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes....
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Two Somali journalists injured in separate shootings
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Two Somali correspondents for international media outlets were injured in separate shootings, one in the northeast semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and the other in the capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports.
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Fighting in Mogadishu Kills 4, Injures 5
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.