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| Al Shabab attacks Mosque - Kill 7 (Somalia) |
| 2009-12-09 |
| Heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants attacked a mosque in the Somali town of Basra between Afgooye and Balcad, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing seven people and injuring 13 others. According witnesses, the guerrillas forced their way into the mosque where celebrating people gathered to commemorate a ritual but met with force, leading to all out violence. Sheikh Abdirahman Hassan Hussein, an Al-Shabaab official in Lower Shabelle confirmed the attack at the mosque, claiming that the people were 'apostates' who gathered to do un-Islamic ritual. Possibly veneration of a Sufi 'saint' or reading of devotional poetry or maybe using the wrong color scheme on their prayer rugs. |
| Posted by:lord garth |