I guess when U.S. puppets are threatened or a phantom "Al-CIA-Duh" needs to be promoted as killed in an air strike, then it makes the War Daily propaganda sheets.
Otherwise.... it's just like Burma!
All of a sudden, we are hearing about Burma again!
Not that it doesn't belong in the news after a catastrophe like that, but to see Laura Bush taking White House press questions over the issue?
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world.
Wielding thick sticks and hurling stones that smashed the windshields of several cars and buses, the rioters jammed the narrow streets of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, screaming “Down with those suffocating us!”
Demonstrators, including many women and children, marched to protest the refusal of traders to accept old 1,000-shilling notes, blaming them and a growing number of counterfeiters for rising food costs.
Within an hour, their ranks increased to tens of thousands, and rioting spread to all 13 districts of the capital. Some protesters threw rocks at shops, and chaos erupted at the main Bakara market.
Hundreds of shops and restaurants in southern Mogadishu closed for fear of looting. At least four people were injured in the violence, witnesses said.
The price of rice and other staples has increased by more than 40 percent since mid-2007, leading to protests and riots in other nations, including Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon and Burkina Faso.
The Asian Development Bank said Monday that a billion poor people in Asia need food aid to help cope with rising prices. And the president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, proposed that the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization be dismantled, calling it a “money pit” and blaming it for the food crisis.
Soaring fuel prices, poor weather and a growing demand from the burgeoning middle classes in India and China have contributed to a jump in food prices worldwide. Africa has been particularly hard hit.
In Mogadishu, the price of corn meal has more than doubled since January. Rice has increased to $47.50 from $26 this year for a 110-pound sack.
The cost of food has also been driven up by the plummeting Somali shilling, which has lost nearly half its value against the dollar this year because of growing insecurity and a market clogged with millions of counterfeit notes. The shilling has reached about 30,000 per dollar, from about 17,000.
“First we have been killed with bullets, now they are killing us with hunger,” said Halima Omar Hassan, a demonstrator who works as a porter, carrying goods for people on her back.
Witnesses said troops had opened fire in at least two areas of the capital, though most soldiers were firing into the air.
One man shot by the troops died on the way to an operating room at the capital’s main hospital, a doctor, Dahir Dhere, said.
And Abdinur Farah, a protester, said his uncle had been hit when government troops opened fire, and died before he could reach a hospital.
“He was just peacefully expressing his feelings,” said Mr. Farah, who was marching with his uncle, his uncle’s two wives and his uncle’s six children. “It is saddening that the very government which is supposed to support him, killed him.”
The United Nations food security unit warned recently that half of Somalia’s seven million people faces famine, pointing to a drought as well as food prices."
