Posted on 10/17/2009 5:11:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KISMAYO, Somalia (AFP) – No luxury cruise but a ticket to jihad was the prize for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
"The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is to encourage them to participate in the ongoing holy war against the enemies of Allah in Somalia," Sheikh Abdullahi Alhaq said at a ceremony late Friday.
The radio-broadcast quiz organised by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab organisation in the southern Somali city of Kismayo lasted throughout Ramadan, which ended last month.
Five neighbourhoods of the port city entered the competition, which consisted mainly of questions on science, culture and the Koran.
The winners -- a team from Farjano district -- were given a first prize consisting of one AK-47 assault rifle, two hand grenades, an anti-tank landmine and office supplies at a ceremony attended by hundreds of residents.
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A picture released by the NATO on May 2, 2009 shows weapons and grenades seized on a pirates "mother ship" off the coast of Somalia. No luxury cruise but an AK-47 assault rifle and two hand grenades were some of the prizes for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. (AFP/NATO/File)
office supplies?
Party favors.
And we keep sending $$$$$$$$$$$$$ to Somalia...
Forrest Gump sure had America & Americans pegged!
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