(Updated: Originally posted January 5, 2007)
Have a look-see at the beautiful mommy and baby, readers.
"Somali Government Seeks to Tighten Its Grip Amid Chaos" by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
KISMAYO, Somalia, Jan. 4 — A hand grenade was tossed into a government army compound on Thursday night in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, in yet another sign of growing chaos in the country.
Security seemed to be unraveling across the country. The violence is surging on two fronts: antigovernment attacks and increased banditry, both of which were virtually unheard of during the Islamists’ short-lived reign.
In northern Mogadishu, residents said that four people were killed Wednesday night after bandits fired a bazooka at a truck whose driver refused to pay an extortion tax. Unauthorized checkpoints have popped up all over the city, reminiscent of the years of anarchy when clan-based militias carved up Mogadishu — and much of the rest of Somalia, for that matter.
In Dhagtur, in central Somalia, Shabelle radio reported Thursday that five people, including two children, were killed by a tribal militia during a gun battle. A dispute over a well was cited as the possible cause.
See what we returned Somalia to, readers?
Ali Mohammed Gedi, the [puppet] prime minister, also pushed ahead with his disarmament plan, extending until Saturday a deadline for turning in guns and threatening house-to-house searches if the guns were not surrendered.
The transitional government is still battling the last remnants of the Islamist forces, who have fled to a remote, heavily forested area in southern Somalia along the Kenyan border. Several hundred Islamist fighters are cornered, and that it was only a matter of days until the Islamist movement, which had ruled much of Somalia for the past six months until Ethiopian forces intervened, was finished for good."
Well, isn't that nice?!
They RUN INTO the WOODS, but we still gotta kill 'em, GOTTA KILL 'EM ALL!
And they are still around after a year, so WTF?!
Just MORE GOVERNMENT LIES!
Pfffffffftttt!
