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Somalia: Islamic jihadists attack hotel where government officials were meeting, murdering at least 10 people

Feb 21, 2015 12:49 pm By Robert Spencer

Somaliabomb“We shall continue the anti-terrorism war, this attack makes clear that terrorists don’t have any respect for the peaceful religion of Islam by killing innocent Muslims,” said Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Indeed, the Qur’an says: “And never is it for a believer to kill a believer except by mistake” (4:92), although these jihadists were, of course, targeting people they considered to be apostates and heretics, and so they didn’t believe this verse applied to them. Anyway, would Hassan Sheikh Mohamud be this angry if non-Muslims had been targeted?

“Terrorist bombs kill officials,” Associated Press, February 22, 2015:

Government officials were meeting at the Central Hotel in Somalia’s capital when an Islamic extremist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the hotel gate, and another went in and blew himself up, killing at least 10 people.

Mogadishu’s deputy mayor and a politician were killed in the attack, an MP said, and the country’s deputy prime minister was among the wounded, said a police official.

The attack is the latest blow to the Somali Government’s efforts to contain the deadly insurgency by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab that, despite the loss of key strongholds in Somalia, continues to stage attacks in the capital and elsewhere. The Islamic insurgent group claimed the responsibility for the twin suicide bombings, according to the group’s radio station, Andulus.

“We can confirm that more than 10 persons, including politicians and soldiers were killed in that horrific attack,” said Captain Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer.

The blast ripped off large parts of the hotel’s wall and smoke blackened its facade. Two dead bodies were lying outside the hotel in Mogadishu, and a wounded man struggled to stand up, but immediately collapsed as blood gushed from his abdomen. Soldiers had cordoned off the area.

Terrified pedestrians ran through the streets, with one survivor recounting the bloody scene.

“Disaster, limbs were flying scattered around like tissue papers,” said Muhyadin Dahir, who was dust-faced and bloodied.

Somali legislator Omar Ali Nor and Mogadishu’s deputy mayor Mohamed Aden are among the dead, said lawmaker Mohamed Ali.

“A dark day for our country,” Ali said.

Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte was rushed to a hospital, and was among several other government officials at the hotel at the time of the attack, said police officer Hussein. Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the attack on the hotel, saying it would not derail efforts by his Government to restore peace to Somalia which is recovering from decades of war.

“We shall continue the anti-terrorism war, this attack makes clear that terrorists don’t have any respect for the peaceful religion of Islam by killing innocent Muslims,” he said….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    Look Obama!
    Some civilians are killing some other civilians for some complicated undefined reason.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 1:16 pm

      Strange that Obama would not be furious since Muslims were the victims.

  2. Mirren10 says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    As Robert has noted, this skank doesn’t give a damn if **innocent non-muslims** are murdered, only ‘innocent muslims’.

    ”The attack is the latest blow to the Somali Government’s efforts to contain the deadly insurgency”

    I am so sick to my back teeth of these weaselly euphemisms. ‘Insurgency’ ! Call it what it is, jihad terror.

    “We can confirm that more than 10 persons, including politicians and soldiers were killed in that horrific attack,” said Captain Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer”

    This is what I don’t comprehend; Somalia is a mohammedan country. What would it take for the government, and the army, to utterly crush the ‘insurgents’ ? Unless they have some reason for not doing so ?

    I know nothing of Somalia, beyond what I’ve gleaned from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book, and google; perhaps someone more au fait with the region can enlighten me ?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 12:48 am

      Mirren –

      this article might help a little. It’s by someone – Jewish, in fact, and a musicologist, among other things! – who has spent a fair bit of time in Africa. It’s quite interesting.

      http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/34281

      “Somalia in a State of Nature”. – Geoffrey Clarfield, May 2011.

      I would however argue that he fudges the issue just a bit when he starts talking about “radical Islamic ideology” rather than just cutting to the chase and saying “Islam”.

      Islam does nothing to constrain or mitigate the tribal blood feud mentality; instead, it makes it *worse*, because the suspicion and aggression already present are fed and magnified 100-fold by Islam.

      • Mirren10 says

        Feb 22, 2015 at 7:10 am

        Yes, a very interesting and illuminating article, dda. Thanks for pointing it my way. It explains a few things about Kenya, as well.

  3. fred says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    The suicide bombers were two Dutch citizens I red in the newspaper today in Holland:
    http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23713975/__Daders_bomaanslag_uit_Nederland__.htm
    In this newspaper they were talking about at least 25 people killed.

    Dutch citizens have been active in suicide attacks in Iraq too. And like more and more European citizens (they estimate at least 5000) they love to join ISIS. Dutch fighting for ISIS are some 200 government says here in Holland.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 12:54 am

      Here’s hoping that one day Geert Wilders prevails, and can wake up more Dutch people – and politicians – in time; and then all those jihadis holding Dutch papers who skive off to join the jihad in Somalia, along with those who skive off to N Africa, or to Syria or Iraq, or to Yemen, or wherever, will discover – *after* they have departed the Netherlands and arrived in the badlands of the Dar al Islam – that their infidel-country citizenship has evaporated in a puff of smoke, and that the drawbridge has been pulled up behind them, and the gates slammed shut.

  4. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    So, this was a moozies on moozies attack. Hmmm… I gotta admit, with some shame, I feel a bit conflicted here. I do feel badly though about the property damage.

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    We shall continue the anti-terrorism war, this attack makes clear that terrorists don’t have any respect for the peaceful religion of Islam by killing innocent Muslims

    Define “innocent” and “muslim”…

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    Feb 23, 2015 at 7:35 am

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    Feb 23, 2015 at 7:36 am

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