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| Gunmen kill US national in Somalia | |
| 2010-11-28 | |
| [Iran Press TV] Unknown gunnies have rubbed out a Somali-born American national north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a report says. The assailants opened fire on 51-year-old Bashir Ahmed Abdi Wednesday morning as he was riding a car into Villa Somalia -- the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reported on Friday. Bashir had traveled to Mogadishu at the invitation of the Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. He was a lawyer in Somalia before he immigrated to the United States. Bashir had recently received calls from several Somali politicians as well as the prime minister to help them with the formation of the new government. No group has yet grabbed credit for Wednesday's terror attack. In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months. The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September. Compared to last year, the figures suggest an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and a 72 percent rise in the number of hospitalized women and kiddies. Some 4,000 patients with injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions in makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees. Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 " to lose one is very sad " Is it ? |
| Posted by: Dave UK 2010-11-28 21:11 |
| #7 It's hard to escape back in, but it can be done............. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-11-28 17:50 |
| #6 They would tell you that the Somalis are a multi-generational, clan-centric horde of thieves with fundamentalist Deobandi Muslim ideals and zero desire to integrate. Didn't Ayaan Hirsi Ali come from Somalia originally? She certainly doesn't think highly of her kinfolk! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-28 17:09 |
| #5 allow....should I swear I can spell... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-11-28 10:32 |
| #4 Steve, I've talked with the law enforcement intelligence personnel at fusion centers in Cleveland, Minneapolis and San Diego. They would tell you that the Somalis are a multi-generational, clan-centric horde of thieves with fundamentalist Deobandi Muslim ideals and zero desire to integrate. Of all the people we alow to come here, thses are the last we should consider! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-11-28 10:31 |
| #3 For that reason I don't object to our country taking in peaceful, hard-working Somalis who are willing to forsake the old country and are willing to become Americans. But the ones who cling to the old ways, particularly the old culture, need to be sent back. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-28 10:11 |
| #2 "Cowardly thousands" seems a bit harsh. I would certainly leave Somalia at the first opportunity, and the U.S. was created by people fleeing their own hellholes around the world. |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2010-11-28 10:10 |
| #1 i am sorry to hear this story. most somalis run away leaving their country to the Shabaab. The brave, talented ones like this lawyer that return to try to fix the place are the rare, golden apples in a rotten barrel to lose one is very sad think of those cowardly thousands that just run away at the first opportunity. this guy returned. |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-11-28 03:22 |