Another Somalia Security Minister Assassinated

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It’s not a good sign when your national security ministers keep getting murdered: Somali security minister killed in explosion.

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somalia’s national security minister and at least 24 other people were killed in a suicide attack Thursday, and an extremist Islamic group with alleged links to al-Qaida claimed responsibility.

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed accused al-Qaida of being behind the bombing, which also killed a senior Somali diplomat, but did not offer any evidence. In March, Osama bin Laden, the leader of the global terrorist network, urged Somalis to overthrow Ahmed, calling him a tool of the United States in an audiotape that outlined al-Qaida’s ambitions in Somalia. …

National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was the second senior security official to be killed in as many days. Mogadishu’s police chief died during fighting with Islamic insurgents in the capital on Wednesday that saw at least 34 people killed.

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58 comments
1 doppelganglander  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:27:03am

This job is as dangerous as being al-Qaeda’s second in command.

2 laZardo  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:27:32am

I’ve read that the Islamists in Somalia (and Yemen) could actually be fleeing from some rather successful campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Only thing is, they haven’t exactly outstayed their welcome with the locals in Somalia as they seem to have done with the Iraqi and Pakistani villagers.

3 BatGuano  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:27:33am

It sounds like Somalia still has “issues”.

4 laZardo  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:27:57am

re: #2 laZardo

*successful campaigns against them

/pimf

5 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:29:59am

Another country going to shit courtesy of radical Islamists. As if the War Lords of the last century weren’t bad enough.

6 Diamond Bullet  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:30:37am

A “Somalian security minister” is about as oxymoronic as an Obama treasury secretary.

7 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:13am

OK I’m off!

8 Creeping Eruption  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:24am

re: #7 Alouette

OK I’m off!

G’luck.

9 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:35am

re: #7 Alouette

OK I’m off!

Good luck.

10 Ford_Prefect  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:41am

re: #7 Alouette

OK I’m off!

I have always thought that.

//

11 Ben Hur  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:47am

Somalia has a government?

12 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:31:57am

re: #7 Alouette

OK I’m off!

We’ve known THAT for some time, now go to that interview. ;)

13 IslandLibertarian  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:32:05am

“Who’s in charge here?”
“Don’t you know?”
Apocalypse Now…..

14 Creeping Eruption  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:32:14am

re: #11 Ben Hur

Somalia has a government?

I was wondering the same thing. No sarc.

15 laZardo  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:33:10am

2:30 AM, and I’ve got classes later today now that the citywide college swine flu* quarantine is over. G’night.

/*fuck your acronyms. q;

16 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:33:45am

re: #10 Ford_Prefect

I have always thought that.

//

I have to be careful not to say “I’m off!” around my husband…his usual comeback is “No more than usual.”

17 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:34:25am

re: #16 scottishbuzzsaw

I have to be careful not to say “I’m off!” around my husband…his usual comeback is “No more than usual.”

And you don’t serve him boiled hay for dinner? ;)

18 Ford_Prefect  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:34:37am

re: #16 scottishbuzzsaw

Scottish! How are you?

19 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:35:18am

re: #17 FurryOldGuyJeans

And you don’t serve him boiled hay for dinner? ;)

Haggis.

20 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:35:39am

re: #18 Ford_Prefect

Scottish! How are you?

Just fine, {Ford}…how are you?

21 lawhawk  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:35:53am

A failed state and no clear leadership to do anything about. SS/DD

22 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:36:01am

re: #19 scottishbuzzsaw

Haggis.

I tried haggis once. That was one too many times. Ugh!

23 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:37:09am

re: #22 MrSilverDragon

I tried haggis once. That was one too many times. Ugh!

I agree…dreadful stuff.

*ancestors are rolling in their graves*

24 Ford_Prefect  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:37:23am

re: #20 scottishbuzzsaw

Just fine, {Ford}…how are you?

I am well, except for this weather we are having. Cold and wet.

25 SasquatchOnSteroids  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:37:46am

70 people gone just like that.

Fuckin’ insane.

26 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:38:02am

re: #22 MrSilverDragon

I tried haggis once. That was one too many times. Ugh!

Never tried haggis, but I suppose with enough Scotch….

27 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:39:08am

re: #26 Kosh’s Shadow

Never tried haggis, but I suppose with enough Scotch….

Trust me, with some things, even Scotch won’t help.

28 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:39:36am

Could have been Al Qaeda or could have been some pissed-off pirates.
But a bomb is more in the style of Al Qaeda.
If he had walked the plank, that would have been different.

(And I know pirates really didn’t have captives walk the plank)

29 scottishbuzzsaw  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:40:50am

re: #24 Ford_Prefect

I am well, except for this weather we are having. Cold and wet.

I’ll trade you our hot & humid, high of 97 (not including heat index) for your cold and wet!

30 JustABill  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:41:25am

I just heard he had a large sum of money stashed away in a Nigerian bank that apparently can only be claimed by an American…

31 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:42:18am

re: #30 JustABill

I just heard he had a large sum of money stashed away in a Nigerian bank that apparently can only be claimed by an American…

You got that email too?
////

32 soxfan4life  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:43:15am

What’s 0’s comment to prevent a negative stereotype of radical Islam going to be on this. Surely something along the lines of his support for free elections in Iran.

33 Jack Burton  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:43:30am

re: #11 Ben Hur

Somalia has a government?

Eric Cartman and his scurvy band on pirates are the executive branch.

34 Ford_Prefect  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:44:30am

It is time for me to mosey on. I hope you all have a good day/evening/whatever.

Later Lizards!

35 subsailor68  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:45:24am

re: #30 JustABill

I just heard he had a large sum of money stashed away in a Nigerian bank that apparently can only be claimed by an American…

Crap. No wonder my scam isn’t working. I’ve been sending e-mails to Nigerians saying there’s money in an American bank only they can claim.

I keep getting the same replies: “Really? Which one?”

36 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:47:51am

re: #35 subsailor68

Crap. No wonder my scam isn’t working. I’ve been sending e-mails to Nigerians saying there’s money in an American bank only they can claim.

I keep getting the same replies: “Really? Which one?”

My favorite of these scams purported to be from Suha Arafat.
More recently, I’ve been receiving ones from “Ban Ki-Moon”.

37 AuntAcid  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:48:02am

re: #26 Kosh’s Shadow

Never tried haggis, but I suppose with enough Scotch….

Come on guys. Where is your sense of adventure? Put it on a pillow and turn down the lights.

38 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:49:44am

Animaniacs - Wheel of Morality Compilation

39 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:50:39am

Don’t Stop Meddling Now

For the past few years we’ve spent hundreds of millions promoting democracy in Iran only to have President Barack Obama sit on his hands when Iranians take to the streets to demand it themselves. There’s something tragically familiar in this. In the early 1950s President Eisenhower encouraged Hungarians to fight back against their Soviet oppressors. As Ralph Peters puts it in today’s New York Post, “When they did, we watched from the sidelines as Russian tanks drove over them.” On February 15, 1991, about a week before the Gulf War ceasefire, President George H.W, Bush said on Voice of America radio: “There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations‘ resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations.” Weeks later, Iraqi Kurds and Shiites rose up against Saddam. While they were crushed and executed en masse by Saddamn, President Bush played down the significance of the conflict and distanced the U.S. from the revolutionaries. The anger this seeded in the Iraqi population came back at the U.S. in spades when Saddam’s regime could no longer be mollified.

The problem is not that the U.S. “meddles.” It’s that it meddles until it doesn’t. And that not only creates distrust among hopeful peoples around the world; it leaves conflicts festering until such time that their resolution is both critical and formidably difficult. If the situation in Iran passes quietly from uprising to mourning, don’t think we won’t have created a whole new army of burned former allies.

40 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:51:34am

re: #26 Kosh’s Shadow

Never tried haggis, but I suppose with enough Scotch….

Haggis is delicious, but sufficient quantities of scotch are still necessary.

41 AuntAcid  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:51:52am

re: #39 Kenneth

serverve penalties for early withdrawal….

42 KenJen  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:52:26am
43 Occasional Reader  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:53:00am

re: #11 Ben Hur

Somalia has a government?

Apparently, Somalis does have a government, and the Palestinians don’t have a state.

I’ve simply stopped asking questions.

44 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:54:01am

Power Struggles Inside Iran
Michael J. Totten - 06.18.2009 - 1:23 PM

Unconfirmed reports are circulating that Iran’s former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rasfanjani is in the city of Qom trying to convince the Assembly of Experts to remove “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei, the man who has been Iran’s real tyrant since the death of Ruhollah Khomeini. The clerics in the Assembly have the constitutional power to remove Khamenei, though it’s impossible to say if much would change if they did. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad’s men in the Revolutionary Guards, Basij militia, and Ansar Hezbollah have most of the firepower.

45 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:55:25am

re: #43 Occasional Reader

“a” government? In fact, Somalia has several governments.

46 Unakite  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:57:02am

re: #40 Kenneth

Haggis is delicious, but sufficient quantities of scotch are still necessary.

Haggis makes my stomach boil.
//

47 Occasional Reader  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:06:55pm

re: #45 Kenneth

“a” government? In fact, Somalia has several governments.

And the Palis have anywhere from one to three states! (Depending on how you count ‘em.)

Like I said, I’m confused.

48 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:08:24pm

re: #47 Occasional Reader

The Palis have two states: moderately violent and militantly violent.

49 BatGuano  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:14:54pm

re: #48 Kenneth

Here is comedian Larry Miller from 2002:

[Link: www.terrorism101.org…]

50 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:29:24pm

re: #49 BatGuano

LOL!


“Other Arabs From The Same General Area Who Are In Deep Denial About Never Being Able To Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death.”

I know that’s a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: “Adjacent Jew-Haters.”

Excellent link, now added to my favorites list. Thanks.

51 Macker  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:34:24pm

If there’s one country which has shown it is not worthy of sovereignty, it’s Somalia…

/so sad

52 debutaunt  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:35:23pm

re: #30 JustABill

I just heard he had a large sum of money stashed away in a Nigerian bank that apparently can only be claimed by an American…

Deal me in!

53 BatGuano  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:35:30pm

re: #50 Kenneth

You’re welcome!

54 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:36:10pm

Somalia……makes Haiti look positively normal

55 Kenneth  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:43:33pm

re: #54 Jewels (AKA Julian)

Somalia……makes Haiti look positively normal

And it’s what the Palestinian Arabs aspire to!

56 zzzzzzzzzz.....  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 12:48:12pm

So much rain and so little time…..

57 lostlakehiker  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 2:41:04pm

One of the recent links posted here seems awfully flaky.

Claims that BBC faked anti-Ahmadinejad coverage, but is this a reputable source?

Let’s scroll down to the comments:

From “Jerry”, we have this gem:

look up project blue beam. nasa has the technology to create earthquakes. make a huge one in the middle of the ocean and boom, you got urself a tsunami


From “notsurprised”, this:

Right here in Texas we have had some of the first ever recorded earthquakes of our history. Why? Due to a natural gas drilling technique called fracking. So it is entirely plausible that they can create major disasters by other techniques.


And some more:

By their own admission, the Zio-sh$t claim credit for their incitement in Iran election overthrow.


This guy at least understands exactly how much mental firepower he’s packing. His screen name says it all:

dimwit:

Hurricane Katrina was an INSIDE JOB!


And now we have this:

CAUGHT Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

LMAOOOOO BBC CAUGHT AGAIN !
THERE ARE MORE SUPPORTERS FOR AHMEDINJAD AND NOTICE HOW DIFFERENT IN PERSONALITY BETWEEN THE OPPISITION AND SUPPORTERS ?
AHMEDINJADS FANS ARE POOR, PIOUS, MORAL AND KNOW ABOUT THE ZIONIST ENEMY, POWER TO HIM.
I AM OFFCOURSE LEBENESE AND HE GIVES AID AND MONEY TO HEZBOLLAH, WITHOUT IRAN HEZBOLLAH WOULDNT HAVE BEEN AS STRONG AS IT IS TODAY, AND ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PROBLY TAKEN LEBANON ALONG TIME AGO

Reply


And this:

Sean Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 8:54 am

Am I the only one that kinda likes this Ahmadinejad guy? He doesn’t seem like a horrible person at all, in fact he seems like a very good leader who is sincerely trying to help his people.


And so it goes. This story and its comment string hath an ancient and a fishlike smell.

58 anotherindyfilmguy  Thu, Jun 18, 2009 5:00:47pm

Game time?

It’s not a good sign when:
You’re in Somalia…
Your “pirate boat” just sighted a big grey thing on the horizon with a U.S. Flag and puffs of smoke popping up on up…
The guy next to you on the pirate boat points to an incoming smoke trail from that “model airplane” you spotted a few minutes ago…

etc…


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