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Africa: Horn
30 dead in Somali violence
2005-10-08
At least 30 people have died in nine days of fighting over grazing land in southern Somalia, witnesses and officials said Friday. Ten people, including four children, died late Thursday in the fighting, which has pitted clan-based militias against each other in Heejow Mahaad 200 kilometers (125 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, witnesses told The Associated Press by two-way radio. They asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation from the militias. The fighting started September 29 when local farmers and pastoralists clashed over a plot of land. Regional leader Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siyad Indha-ade and clan elders have appealed to both sides to stop fighting and begin peace talks. Hundreds of people have fled their homes in the area to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. The fighters are using heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades that can easily tear through most Somali homes.
"We are simple, if extremely well-armed shepherd militias..."
Farah Osman Yabar, a 76-year-old farmer, said the farmers have lived in and worked the area for years. "Clashes have periodically flared up between the two groups as migrating pastoralists in search of water during the dry season would graze on farmers land," he said. Yabar said disputes over lost crops in the past would be settled by tribal leaders, with the nomadic people reimbursing the farmers. But now he said the disputes turn violent because "it's the gun that counts."
Posted by:Dan Darling

#7  But, if they'll declare a hudna at the right time, vastly improve their chances for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-08 23:21  

#6  This will prolly torpedo their bid to host the Olympics.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-08 22:38  

#5  I will no more mourn for muslims killing each other than I would for rattle snakes. Today there is news that muslim terrorists are planning to blow up the NY subway with bombs in baby strollers. How many men, women and children would the muslim terrorists have killed if they were successful? How many babies were on the 4 planes during 9/11/2001? What about the care care centers in the WTC? I don't remember any qualms recorded of the terrorists on the black boxes that they are killing women and children. Only "allah ackbar! allah ackbar! allah ackbar!".

If you remember, it was Somalis who were killing, raping, and starving hundreds of thousands of Somalis just a decade ago. And guess what, it was mostly women and children bearing the brunt, without the Somalis themselves shedding a tear for what they were doing. And the US spent billions and two dozen dead trying to feed and stabilize that shithole. And guess what, their version of gratitide was to shoot at peacekeepers, steal as much food and aid, and starve their neighbors.

How many times do the highest muslim scholars need to tell you islam does not distinguish between soldiers and civilians? How many times do muslims have to tell you that you are subhuman, to be conquered and converted or killed, your women and children and all you own the property of allah and for muslim to do as they please with it? How many times do suicide bombers need to blow up families in Pizza parlors, teenagers at discos, and schoolkids in class, at busstops and in busses before you get it through your thick head that muslims specifically target women and children?

http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israelpalestineterrorism127691.html
Palestinian terrorists murdered 4 young Jewish children and their pregnant mother this afternoon. ... After spraying the station wagen with bullets, the Palestinian terrorists walked up to the 4 terrified little girls and shot each one of them twice in the head, police said. The 8-month-old pregnant mother was shot in her belly at point blank range as she tried to cover her children. The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2).

You want me to feel bad when muslims kill each other, including children? By the very of of stealing each other's cattle and shooting into homes, they tell me loud and clear they value cows more than they value each other, children included. The only thing I feel is shadenfraude. I will save my tears for the children of Israel and Beslan, and the orphans created on 9/11. So fuck the Somalis. Fuck the muslims. As for YOU, here's a quarter. Go buy a fucking clue, you limp dicked eunuch.
Posted by: ed   2005-10-08 22:19  

#4  We are simple, if extremely well-armed shepherd militias

Not if, albeit. Albeit is the only word that works here, else it's a nonstarter, a dud, a washout.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-10-08 21:27  

#3  Oh? The deaths of children is?
Nut.
Posted by: You   2005-10-08 18:38  

#2  I saw an old poster once selling Thompson Sub-Machine guns.
Showed a farmer in full western gear standing on his front porch and using a Thompson with a 50 round magazine to mow down eight or so "Bad Guys" on horseback threatening him in his own front yard.
The image sticks in my mind as what's happening here.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-10-08 12:53  

#1  Thank allah Stalin for AK47s. More please.
Posted by: ed   2005-10-08 03:20  

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