Mogadishu bomb blast kills 50

Another victory for the jihadists, another 50 funerals for the innocents caught between Islam and the deep blue sea.  The truck exploded while alongside another tanker, luckily the blast did not ignite the passing tanker, keeping the carnage at 50(so far).

This is barbaric, this is vicious...

This is Islam.


From The New York Times October 4 by Mohamed Ibrahim and Jeffrey Gettleman

Truck Bomb Kills Dozens in Somalia’s Capital

MOGADISHU, Somalia — This particular area of Mogadishu was supposed to be safe, a highly fortified government compound in one of the few neighborhoods that Somalia’s transitional government actually controls.

But on Tuesday morning, that illusion was shattered when an enormous truck bomb was detonated right outside the compound’s gates, killing dozens of people — many of them students standing around waiting for exam results — and sending the signal that the Shabab Islamist group may be making a comeback after several months of losing ground.

Witnesses reported horrific scenes of burning bodies, twisted in agony, strewn across the streets. African Union officials said at least 50 people had been killed and possibly as many as 100. Floods of wounded people stumbled into this city’s dilapidated hospitals, which were already full of victims of the country’s widening famine.

Somalia has lurched from crisis to crisis since 1991, when the central government collapsed, and while the Shabab formally withdrew from Mogadishu, the capital, in August, it seems that they are now living up to their vow to carry on a vicious guerrilla war.

Almost immediately after the bombing, the Shabab, who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda and have imported many Qaeda-like tactics to Somalia, claimed responsibility.

“We have targeted the attack to 150 young Somalis who were planning to be flown to Sudan to be trained as spies,” the Shabab said in a statement.

However, according to witnesses, the young Somalis killed were not part of the security services but were students hoping for scholarships to Sudan and Turkey.

Keep them uneducated and they are easier to control.

On Tuesday, many students and their families had gathered at the government compound, located near a busy intersection, to check bulletin boards with the results of examinations.

“Several students I knew were killed in the blast,” said Anisa Abdulle, a 16-year-old student who visited the compound earlier but left before the blast. “This is horrible. I hate the Shabab, because they see the students going for learning as enemies.”

Check with Boko Haram, Abdulle as it is they who believe that "Western education is a sin".  They may have a few members in Al-Shabaab.

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