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Gunmen kill US national in Somalia
[Iran Press TV] Unknown gunnies have rubbed out a Somali-born American national north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a report says.The assailants opened fire on 51-year-old Bashir Ahmed Abdi Wednesday morning as he was riding a car into Villa Somalia -- the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reported on Friday. Bashir had traveled to Mogadishu at the invitation of the Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. He was a lawyer in Somalia before he immigrated to the United States. Bashir had recently received calls from several Somali politicians as well as the prime minister to help them with the formation of the new government. No group has yet grabbed credit for Wednesday's terror attack. In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been 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, the figures suggest an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and a 72 percent rise in the number of hospitalized women and kiddies. Some 4,000 patients with injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions in makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees. Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Posted by: Fred 2010-11-28 |
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