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| Sweden sentences al-Shabab men to jail |
| 2010-12-10 |
| [Iran Press TV] A Swedish court has sentenced two members of the Somali al-Shabaab group to four years in prison over involvement in terrorist attacks in the war-weary Horn of Africa nation. A district court in the southwestern city of Gothenburg on Wednesday found two Swedish citizens of Somali origin guilty of collaboration with the hard boy al-Shabaab group to carry out bombing attacks in Somalia. The men were jugged in May and June. The anti-government al-Shabaab group is now in control of several towns in southern Somalia following weeks of bloody festivities with rival Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a fighters and Somali government forces. In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been killed or 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, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimed women and kiddies admitted to the hospitals. Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 why are they still citizens? Remove their citizenship upon the end of their 4 yr term and ship them back to Africa. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-10 08:18 |