Posted on 09/17/2006 5:51:41 AM PDT by Brilliant
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed an Italian nun at a children's hospital in Mogadishu on Sunday in an attack that drew immediate speculation of links to Muslim anger over the Pope's recent remarks on Islam.
The Catholic nun's bodyguard also died in the latest attack apparently aimed at foreign personnel in volatile Somalia.
The assassinations were a blow to Mogadishu's new Islamist rulers' attempt to prove they have pacified one of the world's most lawless cities since chasing out warlords in June.
The bodyguard died instantly, but the nun was rushed into an operating theater at the hospital after the shooting.
"After serious injuries, she died in the hospital treatment room," doctor Ali Mohamed Hassan told Reuters.
"She was shot three times in the back."
Details of the incident at the so-called SOS hospital in north Mogadishu were sketchy. But one suspect was quickly arrested by Islamist militiamen who control the capital, witnesses near the scene said.
A high-level Islamist source told Reuters the attack may well be linked to the controversy over Pope Benedict's recent remarks about holy wars, which have been taken by many Muslims as an attempt to portray their religion as innately violent.
"SOS hospital is assisted by the Catholic Church and the slain aid worker was a nun," the source said. "There is a very high possibility the people who killed her were angered by the Catholic Pope's recent comments against Islam."
LITANY OF KILLINGS
Borne out of local courts practicing strict sharia law, the Islamist movement in June seized Mogadishu from U.S.-backed warlords who had run it for the past 15 years.
The Islamists have brought some order to the capital, which was awash with guns and where assassinations were common. But the nun's death -- and the June killing of a Swedish cameraman -- will damage their claim Mogadishu is now safe for foreigners.
Critics of the Islamists say they harbour al Qaeda-linked extremists in their ranks. The top Islamist leader, hardline cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, is on U.S. and U.N. lists of people accused of links to terrorism.
The Islamists deny that, saying the West does not understand them and is succumbing to U.S. propaganda.
Bedri Hashi, an information officer for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), said the killing may have been an attempt by enemies of the Islamists to hurt their image.
"I believe this attack was orchestrated by people who want to discredit the Islamic Courts," he told Reuters.
The Italian nun, whose name could not be immediately confirmed, was the latest in a litany of foreign aid workers and other international staff to be killed in Somalia during its recent, violent past.
The most high-profile recent killing was of Swedish cameraman Martin Adler in June during an Islamist rally.
Another Italian aid worker, Annalena Tonelli, was shot dead in the self-declared enclave of Somaliland in 2003.
Although the Islamists have managed to get guns off the streets and bring down roadblocks often run by young, erratic militiamen loyal to warlords, Mogadishu remains full of weapons and tensions are high.
The Islamists are engaged in a political standoff with the Western-backed interim government of Somalia which is based in Baidoa and has little military muscle of its own.
Sister Leonella, RIP
Kofi is a waste of time , glad to see him go , can it get any worse probably . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702986/posts#51 translates an Italian report that names her
What a wonderful story!! Gee, I'll put some biscuits on and wake Uncle Fester up with the news! / s
Nope, #95. Browser twitched as an image loaded
It seems that Islamic males are manly men--given to raping women for any excuse at all and shooting them in the back. Yes, indeed, manly men.
So.....basically by murdering this nun, the muslim morons once again proved the Pope was correct with the comments that he made.
Pigs
Islam is a religion of murder being practiced by mental incompetents prone to fits of childlike temper tantrums.I hope to see the world turn to anger for these murders.
"She was shot three times in the back."These killers are just some of the people John McCain and the Democrats are extending legal protections to.
Bingo!!!!
Do you think McCain has finally done himself in as a serious contender for the WH? Sure, he's got oodles of money and staffers hired from the last campaign, but who in God's name would vote for him? A side note, but serious. The high school in a nearby town in Eastern MA. has finally put in a buzzer security system. You have to be buzzed in. Up until this week, you were supposed to stop at the main desk and get a visitor badge (if you felt like it.) (Lessons of Beslan were forgotten.)
1. Her reward is not in this world
2. This is the nature of true missionary work. She is there to save souls, even incompetent corrupt ones.
You got that right.
In the unlikely event that McCain got the nomination (and I put the odds of that at less than 100-1), I would vote for Hillary, or Gore or any of them over McCain.
If the Republican Party nominated a traitor like McCain, or a free-speech-hater like McCain, it would signal to me that the Republican Party was dead and that the best thing would be to hasten to whatever depths the Demonrats want to take us so that, hopefully, out of the ashes, a new and better Conservative Party could emerge.
But that's all fantasy. McCain as the Republican nominee? It's not going to happen.
Islam isn't a violent religion. Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Kofi is leaving, I'm relieved too. Doesn't Billy Bob Clinton want that job? King of the World??
Yes! Bubba being head of the UN!! Ugh!
I think 'shake the dust from your feet' would apply. There comes a time.
How dare the Pope accuse Muslims of being voilent?
To prove him wrong, they will take to the streets and destroy propoerty, kill nuns, etc.
What a "peaceful" thing to do. /s
Islamic media outlets in the middle east claim that Jews are monkeys, and that Judaism requires slaughter Islamic children in order to eat & drink their blood.
- result = no violence vs Muslims.
Islamic media outlets public cartoons of Jews, Christians, the Pope and Americans as violent killers.
- result = no violence vs Muslims.
Danish newspapers publish a handful of silly cartoons criticizing Islam.
- result #1= worldwide Islamic violence against Western & Christian targets.
- result #2= Imams create & circulate fake blasphemy against Mohammed, in order to incite more & more violent reactions.
Iranian newspapers publish more horrendous anti-Semite and Holocaust-denying cartoons, in order to prove that western reaction will be more violent.
- result = the western world shrugs it off, and Danish newspapers publish the cartoons. no violence vs Muslims.
The Pope refers to Islam as a violent religion.
- result = Muslisms riot violently, kill a nun, firebomb churches, etc etc.
Anyone notice a pattern?
Hint - The Islamic world is criminally insane.
But if he pulls a Ross Perot on us he could siphon off enough normally Republican votes to empower the evil ones.
This is what these people are all about.They disagree with something the Pope say's so they murder a defenseless woman.I'd call them vermin but it would be an insult to vermin !!!
Clinton as Sec. of the UN . Can't wait to see those tax returns . . .
Rest in peace, Sister.
Proving once again that Islam is a "religion of peace." < /sarcasm >
I have this sick feeling that nuns and priests are going to be targets of Islamic rage until the Pope apologizes for what he said.
The Pope already apologized, but the Religion of Peace murdered this nun anyway.
The Dems and the liberal media tell us that Bush has made the world less safe.
Please note what little it takes to drive the muslims to murder. The Pope made the world less safe just by trying to engage the muslims in a dialogue.
Yep, really brave these Islamofacists, can't even look a little old nun in the eyes as they murder her in the name of their moon god. And three times? Just to be sure she didn't turn on them, I guess. Still she must have been one tough nun not to succumb right away.
The fact that a NUN needed a bodyguard tells us all we need to know about this hellhole and any other environs the Islamofascists infiltrate like cockroaches.
Many Somalis probably thought that Sharia law was better than unchecked and lawless violence. They are now discovering that in submitting to the one they have not escaped the other.
The nun is a martyr...the Muslims are UNCIVILZED!!
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/top.fullStory&sp=l51985Orthodox Church Archbishop attacks 'Islamic fanatism'
September 17, 2006
JOHANNESBURG (AND) In yet another furore to grip the Christian community, the head of the Orthodox Church of Greece has joined the Pope controversy by attacking what he calls Islamic fanaticism in Africa.
In a scathing attack, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric called for Muslims to kill the Pope for his Tuesday utterances, Archbishop Christodoulos told a sermon in Athens that Christians in Africa were suffering at the hands of ‘fanatic Islamists'.
"Many Christians on the Black Continent (Africa) suffer from fanatic Islamists. The example of Roman Catholic monks who were slaughtered last year...because they wore the cross and believed in our crucified Lord is still recent,” said Christodoulos.
The Archbishop’s remarks come as the Muslim world is seething with anger over Pope Benedict XVI’s quoting of a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed (the Islamic supreme leader) were "evil and inhuman".
The Pope has already been forced in submitting that he was "deeply sorry" after hisremarks sparked outrage in the Muslim world, with Morocco calling back its envoy and Turkey casting doubts of Benedict’s scheduled visit in November – the first to a Muslim country.
We need a couple hundred thousand maligning Mohammed. Let's see their riot after that.
Their message and warning. . .could not be more clear. . .and surely makes the case; where others have not been successful.
. . .that they do not own the planet. . .or get to make all the rules. They can stuff it. . .until they get over it. Be it days or lifetimes. . .
The problem is their OWN.
IF the Pope caves. . .Western Civilization will have suffered yet another 'downgrade'. . .
They are the ones that create/condone violent protests over the slightest perceived insult to islam,But never say a peep when co-religonists kill innocents in the name of their god.
You're just not in the "Kumbahya" spirit.
Maybe the UN could solve this problem by giving Prozac to these Muslims...
From this point on, we here at FReepers should cease using an uppercase "I" when spelling islam. IMHO, they are no longer a recognized religion. They are more like a dangerous street gang. The islamic gang needs to be eliminated from the face of the Earth.
Can't allah defend mohammed's honor? Oh, I forgot it is an honor for moslems to rape, loot and murder in allah's name.
Ya, I know.
Still makes very angry.
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