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2005-11-07 Africa: Horn

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Posted by Fred 2005-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The victims were bodyguards in the car behind the leaders, said Mohamed Ali Americo, a senior official in the Somali prime minister's office.

Hey boss, cut us some slack. They switched the vehicle march order at the last minute, how the f*** were we to know!

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-07 01:41|| 2005-11-07 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 What's a more useless job then prime minister of Somalia?
I dunno. Maybe being a deputy prime minister of Somalia?

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-07 10:25|| 2005-11-07 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Gunmen threw grenades and a land mine exploded near a convoy carrying Somalia's prime minister on Sunday, ..

Somalia has a government???

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-07 14:24|| 2005-11-07 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 No. Just a prime minister.

Posted by Fred 2005-11-07 15:18|| 2005-11-07 15:18|| Front Page Top

#5 no Minister of Social Cohesion? peasants!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-11-07 16:10|| 2005-11-07 16:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I am sorry but I am a bit confused...
Is this
Puntland - somalia
somalialand - somalia
or AQ land - somalia
or something I ain't heard of - somalia

Posted by 3dc 2005-11-07 17:34|| 2005-11-07 17:34|| Front Page Top

#7 The negotiated government purports to govern all of Somalia, including Puntland and Somaliland, neither of which apparently consent to be governed from Mogadishu.

Somaliland and Puntland seem to have less propensity for lunacy, probably no more than, say, Djibouti or Eritrea.

Posted by Fred 2005-11-07 20:16|| 2005-11-07 20:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Puntland: are the citizens called Punters?

Posted by Red Dog 2005-11-07 21:06|| 2005-11-07 21:06|| Front Page Top

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