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4 Catholic nuns, 12 others killed in Yemen retirement home
2016-03-05
[DAWN] Gunmen in southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
on Friday stormed a retirement home run by a charity established by Mother Teresa, killing 16 people, including four Catholic nuns, officials and witnesses said.

The killing spree began with two gunnies who first surrounded the home for the elderly in Aden.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber...
four others entered the building on the pretext they wanted to visit their mothers at the facility, according to the charity, Yemeni security officials and witnesses.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The gunnies then moved from room to room, handcuffing the victims before shooting them in the head. A nun who survived and was rescued by locals said that she hid inside a fridge in a storeroom after hearing a Yemeni guard shouting, "Run, run."

Khaled Haidar told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he counted 16 bodies, including that of his brother, Radwan. All had been shot in the head and were handcuffed. He said that in addition to the four nuns, one Yemeni cook, and Yemeni guards were among those killed.

He said that his family was the first to arrive at the house and that he spoke to the surviving nun, who was crying and shaking. Haidar said that his family later handed her over to a group of southern fighters in charge of security in the local Aden district of Sheikh Osman.

Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity in the Indian city of Kolkata, said the members of the charity were "absolutely stunned" at the killing.

"The Sisters were to come back but they opted to stay on to serve people" in Yemen, she added.
Posted by:Fred

#6  scrub previous - i see they elected to stay. I am sorry for being snarky, they did not deserve this
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-03-05 23:52  

#5  TW, I get what it is - just that after a lifetime of devoted service to the order, why not provide a retirement in some less predictably hostile environment?
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-03-05 23:50  

#4  I'm sure in the MSM it'll be covered like Zimmerman and Ferguson. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-05 17:04  

#3  Not just a retirement home, Bov, but a Catholic retirement home manned by nuns.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-03-05 14:02  

#2  These assholes are worth a drone strike
Posted by: Frank G   2016-03-05 07:39  

#1  I am trying to wrap my head around "Yemen" + "Retirement Home" and the disconnect - it burns, it burns
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-03-05 00:09  

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