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Somalia: Islamic jihadists storm Mogadishu hotel, murder at least nine people

Mar 28, 2015 10:06 am By Robert Spencer

MOGADISHU hotelNBC News has the casualty figure at nine now. Islamic jihadists appear to be operating more brazenly and brutally than ever — time to deflect the public’s attention with a new series of reports on “Islamophobia.”

“Militants Take Hostages in Deadly Attack on Mogadishu Hotel,” by Mohammed Ibrahim, New York Times, March 27, 2015:

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Armed assailants attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Friday, leaving at least seven people dead, including a Somali ambassador, and seizing an unknown number of hostages, officials and witnesses said. The Shabab militant Islamist group, which routinely targets government and business sites in the Somali capital, claimed responsibility.

The attack began when a suicide car bomber detonated explosives at a rear gate of the Maka al-Mukarama Hotel, which is popular with government officials and foreigners, around 4 p.m., witnesses said. Gunmen quickly overpowered security guards and took control of the hotel before an elite police antiterrorism unit stormed the hotel compound and rescued most of the hostages, said Mohamed Yusuf, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Security. As of Friday night, it was unclear how many hostages were still trapped inside the hotel.

“The operation still continues,” Mr. Yusuf said. “Most of the hotel complex is under control and people have been rescued, and we will release detailed information once the operation is completed.”

Initial reports said at least seven people had been killed, although the exact number could not be independently verified. It was unclear how many of the dead were civilians and how many were militants. Among the victims was the Somali ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, who died of wounds sustained in the attack, according to health officials….

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 10:21 am

    Islam’s doctrine of revenge means that when my enemy kills individuals in my group, I may (even must) kill an equal number of his group and in the same way…that is Sharia law.

    The doctrine of revenge means that no method of dealing with Islamic terrorists is ultimately effective at stopping it.

    The only way to stop Islamic terrorism is ideological, but governments are afraid to do that because they would have to destroy Islam ideologically, since Islam teaches terrorism (K.8.60).

    The terror group behind this raid will continue the next round of terror ping pong.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Mar 28, 2015 at 1:25 pm

      I agree with you, mortimer. When dealing with an enemy who loves death more than life, killing him is giving him just what he wants. This lust for death and a belief that murder of self and others will provide a short-cut to heaven is a total perversion of the human intellect. A war of attrition against ‘terrorists” may provide brief respites of calm in between battles but the war itself will never end. The leaders of this world must come to recognize that Islam is the driving force behind the spread of a sickness of the mind and must then begin to implement a strategy to eliminate this mental disease. Until that happens the world will be doomed to chronic acts of terrorism leading to the eventual destruction of all intelligent life on this planet.

  2. thomas pellow says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 11:58 am

    -another Islamofascist massacre by Islamic jihad, Al Shabaab-

    “Shot dead as they try to swim for their lives: Al-Shabaab video shows civilians being forced into the sea, brutally gunned down and left to rot on the Somali beach.
    “Al-Shabaab video shows militants coldly executing civilians with machine guns.
    “Video shows graphic closeup footage of the dead bodies floating in the water.
    “The victims all appear to be young unarmed men, captured near the Somali coast.”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3014358/Shot-dead-try-swim-lives-Al-Shabaab-video-shows-civilians-forced-sea-brutally-gunned-left-rot-beach.html#ixzz3VbtL06Gy

    • Justin says

      Mar 28, 2015 at 12:12 pm

      @ Thomas

      Yeah these evil islamic jihadists are brutal everywhere they are but as long as they are killing and beheading each other it is okay with me. According to the “Open Doors” research that came out last year, Somalia is the most dangerous country to be Christian in the islamic world and also it is the only country in the Islamic world where someone can be executed for reading a non-islamic book, for watching a game or for singing or dancing etc.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    The ‘Religion of Peace’ + Weapons
    What could possibly go wrong?

  4. thomas pellow says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    Update.

    “At least 24 killed in Islamic rebel attack on hotel in Somalia”

    { ‘rebels’ = Islamofascists }

    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/at-least-24-killed-in-islamic-rebel-attack-on-hotel-in-somalia-31101957.html?

    • Knight of St. John says

      Mar 28, 2015 at 6:05 pm

      But of course in the NYT article, no mention of Islam in the header or the story. Just random “militants” and “armed assailants” .

      • Mirren10 says

        Mar 29, 2015 at 1:07 pm

        .”Just random “militants” and “armed assailants””

        ‘insurgents’ is another favourite. God forbid anyone should call a spade a spade, never mind a bloody shovel.

  5. thomas pellow says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Deadly al Shabaab siege on Mogadishu hotel ends”

    http://www.france24.com/en/20150328-somalia-al-shabab-siege-mogadishu-hotel/

  6. duh_swami says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 6:56 am

    Every day, sometime multiple times a day there is Mahoundian savagery that has nothing to do with Islam. It’s a hard concept to swallow since Allah allows these savage attacks to happen in his name…You would almost think Allah approves of this behavior.

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