Why do these bombings keep happening in Somalia? Is Mogadishu plagued with “right-wing extremists”? “Islamophobes”?
“At least 18 dead, 30 wounded in Mogadishu hotel blast,” Associated Press, October 28, 2017:
A suicide car bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 30, and gunfire continued as security forces pursued the attackers inside the building, police said. Two more blasts were heard, one when an attacker detonated a suicide vest.
Speaking to the Associated Press by telephone from the scene, Capt. Mohamed Hussein said more than 20 people, including government officials, were thought to be trapped as security forces battled extremists holed up on the top floor of the Nasa-Hablod hotel, close to the presidential palace. Two of the five attackers were killed on the first floor, Hussein said. The others hurled grenades and cut off the building’s electricity as night fell.
Saturday’s blasts came two weeks after more than 350 people were killed in a massive truck bombing on a busy Mogadishu street in the country’s worst-ever attack.
Shabab, Africa’s deadliest Islamic extremist group, quickly claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack and said its fighters were inside the hotel. As night fell, sporadic gunfire could be heard as soldiers responded.
A senior Somali police colonel and a former lawmaker were among the dead, Hussein said.
Mohamed Dek Haji said he survived the bombing as he walked beside a parked car that was largely destroyed by the explosion. He said he saw at least three armed men in military uniforms running toward the hotel after the suicide bombing at its gate.
“I think they were Shabab fighters who were trying to storm the hotel,” he said, lying on a hospital bed. He suffered small injuries on his shoulder and skull from flying glass.
A Somalia bombing killed hundreds; officials figure it must have been Shabab extremists — againWitnesses in some previous attacks have said al-Shabab fighters disguised themselves by wearing military uniforms.
Shabab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu. It has not commented on the massive attack two weeks ago; experts have said the death toll was so high that the group hesitated to further anger Somali citizens as its pursues its insurgency….
Singh the Sikh says
Coming to city near you. Oops..it has already arrived.
mummymovie says
Advocates for Somali “refugees” and “asylum seekers” and their representative networks have proven themselves very adept at seeking out, locating, at unloading these people anywhere the welfare and government goodies seem to be flowing… on a global scale. They gravitate toward these areas everywhere: Minnesota, Maine, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, California… Sweden, Norway, etc etc etc.
It is criminal the way these parasites use our open, libreral laws and social systems to populate and subvert against us.
How long will this go on?
We cannot take much more of this before our cities and our societies will begin to mirror theirs, like Sweden now does.
mummymovie says
You can say what you’d like about the primitiveness of the Somalis, but they sure have outsmarted everybody in that regard.
And they seem to have very effectively established endless, perpetual refugee status everywhere, which allows them to invade, and bring their extended families along to follow in lock-step.
mortimer says
Oh those terrible Seventh-Day Adventist terrorists, Jainist terrorists, er… Bahai terrorists, no, no, Presbyterian terrorists…
I would be called ‘Islamophobic’ if I actually accused the RELIGIO-POLITICAL IDEOLOGY behind the Mogadishu terrorist attacks.
(sarc/off)
If Muslims wanted to stop the terrorism, they would join together and stop it.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadist /Muslim had a very harsh reality check after he died in that murderous car jihad attack in Somalia . For instead of finding himself in a paradise, with or without virgins, they found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of hell, Luke 16:1-31. As the Bible teaches murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21. The Bible also gives a list of those who are fated to suffer terribly forever in the Lake of fire and murderers are on that list, Revelations 21:8.
Furthermore, all those heinous jihad suicide/homicide attacker are both murderous and demonic. It now should be made known that this jihad murderous bombing is the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.” Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
nicholas tesdorf says
Oil-rich kingdoms like Saudi Arabia are not building hospitals, schools, roads, or providing clean water for a fourth world Islamic country like Somalia because there are no clear and certain benefits laid out for these in the Qur’an or Hadith compared to the benefits promised for Jihad or Hejira. Funding Terror brings sure benefits.
gravenimage says
Somalia: Muslims murder 18, injure 30 in jihad suicide bombing at Mogadishu hotel
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This is what the “peace” of Islam looks like–when a country is 100% Muslim…
Anne Smith says
Someone tell Teresa May.