Posted on 09/17/2006 4:20:33 AM PDT by MadIvan
Mogadishu 17, Sep. 06 ( Sh.M.Network) - Unidentified gunmen are reported to have raided Mogadishu’s SOS hospital and gunned down one of the foreign nuns in the hospital.
Reliable sources say the nun, thought to be an Italian, is confirmed dead. A bodyguard of the nun instantly died after he was fatally shot by two men reportedly armed with handguns.
Reports also indicate that the two assailants have been nabbed by armed guards within SOS hospital.
Six other suspects have also arrested as one of the Islamic Courts leaders Sheik Yusuf Indho-adde told reporters.
The motive of the attack remains unknown.
There has been a call for a demonstration against Pope Benedict XVI comment’s on Islam that sparked anger in all Muslim world by some Somali educated clerics. However, it is clearly not known if this fatal attack has anything to do with that.
This is the first time an Italian in SOS Somalia has been shot dead. The report over SOS attack is still sketchy as no reporters are allowed entry to SOS compound.
Monstrous.
Ivan
Ping!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
MadIvan!! Good to see you back on here!
Maybe she was an undercover advance agent for the Sicilian mob, plotting the takeover of all Mogadishu's drug and prostitution businesses, and eventually all the organized crime for the East African coast! (Wooga wooga music.)
Or maybe it was Jihad, idiots.
Fox just said " The muslim brotherhood" find this apology sufficent...
Italian aid worker killed in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Sept 17 (Reuters) - An Italian aid worker was shot and killed on Sunday in Mogadishu in the latest attack on foreigners working in Somalia, medical staff said.
After an operation on the woman, whom some witnesses identified as a nun working at a children's hospital in north Mogadishu, medical staff told a Reuters television reporter that she had died from her injuries.
Nice to see you back sir..
Monstrous behavior by monsters. Sadly, there are no surprises, no behavior too outrageous, for these muslims.
When nuns working to heal the poor in hospitals need body guards, you know they are working in a country dominated by the "Religion of Peace." That our president and now the Pope cannot even criticize this filthy cult without outrages such as this nun's murder resulting is simply mind-boggling. These subhumans must be eradicated because they are incapable of being reasoned with.
It's all about pleasing allah.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702972/posts
Good links at #45 to see how the controversy about the pope's academic lecture unfolded.
Oh yes the motive is unknown but the very next sentence pretty much says it but just in case there's another sentence with some more waffling.
MadIvan!
Welcome back!
Sky News says that the Somalis are admitting that it is linked to the Holy Father's statement.
"We're a religion of peace and we'll kill you to prove it."
I assume that means other Italians have been shot, but lived ... or that workers of other nationalities have been shot dead.
Sad, but nothing new, they're muslims.
Each time someone speaks the truth, many die.
PS: Good to see you MadIvan !
ROP attacking hospital - big surprise... NOT!
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.
Do they have the F.B.I. Office of Public Affairs working over THERE, too????
That was my first thought, too. Nuns in a hospital need bodyguards. What a country.
And the actions of the evildoers are proving him correct in less than 48 hours.
That which is not of God, i.e, evil, is not of reason nor can it be reasoned with.
The only demand of the fanatics is that we become Muslim. There are no other 'negotiating points' than this. It is we enroll under the Crescent Moon and Star Society, or we be shot down like this nun in Africa.
See post 20. She was shot 3 times in the back. The nun was in her 70's.
The terrorists show once more they pick on the weak, the vulnerable, the very young and the very old. They're evil and must be destroyed.
They are simply incompatable with civilization.
It's good to see you back Mad Ivan, the place feels a little more like home with you here:)
I fear for the safety of the Holy Father.
Ivan, glad to see you again. I have missed you!
Fox News just had this on. It happened in Somali. So sad.
Don't tell me that Catholics are going to be blown away now............
The New York Times cannot tell me otherwise.
The offended C.A.I.R. types in the US can shove it.
Nobody can tell me I don't see what I am seeing with my own two eyes. Millions of Americans can see it too.
The cut and run Democrats, positioning themselves before a fatigued and impatient American electorate, will not like it when the Americans actually wake up and realize what is at stake and that the Democrat approach of cut and run will only hasten our own Western demise.
This story, in all its ugliness, needs to be screamed from one end of the globe to another. It merely proves what Manuel II Paleologus said was absolutely correct.
The Islamic world apparently has no sense of irony.
"...I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," he told pilgrims at his Castelgandolfo summer residence.
"These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought. I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with mutual respect," he said.
Those filthy bastards. What repulsive beings. They may not be the ones personally committing these atrocities but they are just as evil.
We are no different than anyone else who rejects the bastards cult.
Theres only one way this is goig to end, and thats with the elimination of islam and the removal from the gene pool of it's most rabid followers.
Shooting a nun in the back is monstrous indeed. It's shocking.
sw
Witnesses: Italian nun killed in Somalia
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia - An Italian nun was fatally shot Sunday at the hospital where she worked, eyewitnesses said Sunday.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the shooting, according to the Islamic militia that controls Mogadishu.
"The nun was shot in the back," said Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, who witnessed the shooting at the S.O.S. Hospital. "She died of her injuries."
The nun's bodyguard was also killed, doctors at the hospital told The Associated Press.
The motive was perfectly clear.
Introduction of fear and intimidation to an organization that is not in the business of combat or clandestine intrigue.
Once fear and intimidation are established, then the purposes of the SOS hospital facilities are available for the support of the activities of the armed mob that operates under the cover of the shar'ia law that is the only controlling legal authority in the region.
Oh, yeah, and punish the Pope for his intemperate outburst about the lack of anger management among Muslims.
I also want to point out that this talk was given as a lecture to a bunch of theologians and was in the context of HOW TO HAVE DIALOGUE, and the emphasis was on the use of reason. It was not a direct attack on Islam, but rather an explanation of why, in order to have a dialogue, people must use reason.
It is quite obvious to me that some in the press took a comment out of context and ran to their Islamic sources for a reaction. Those people in Somalia and Pakistan aren't watching Vatican TV nor are they reading the speech on the Vatican web site. Someone went to them and said "here's what the Pope said, could I get your reaction?"
And so, in my opinion, the press has the death of this good sister on their pea-sized consciences. The press is becoming as much an enemy of civilization as the jihadists.
Moslems kill to please their god, and Christians heal.
Pretty clear which God is which.
The Lakota had an interesting technique of staking an enemy to the ground and building a small campfire on his bare chest. That kind of punishment would take some of the fun out of being a Muslim murderer of innocents.
Yeah, tell me again just HOW this shows that Islam is NOT a religion of violence? (Monstrous is just the right word, MadIvan.)
All the Pope's apologies in the world are not going to remove their much wanted excuses to create havoc.
Once he had said the words, he should have stood behind them. You cannot appease terrorists. At least Bush has an army and nukes behind him. The Pope doesn't.
"The motive for the attack remains unknown"
Wrong. This is the beginning of the murder of Christians for what the Pope said. The dominantly-left media will refuse to say what is really happening.
What kind of cowards shoot nuns in the back, strap bombs on their underage children, take schoolchildren hostage and torture and murder them?
The proponents of a violent ideology of death and destruction.
Will more civilized people finally realize what they are dealing with?
(Manuel II Paelologus)
I am a firm believer in the idea we need a Jack Bauer to deal out pain to these people.
Hi MadIvan,nice to see you:)
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