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• Fourth plane accident at Nairobi airport in four months.

  
  Velozia Air. Aviation news, facts, & opinions: expanded and uncomplicated. — Authority: 114
  A Beech 1900D (not the same airline) similar to the one that crashed in Kenya. Photo by Wesisnay. Two Blue Bird Aviation pilots were killed when their Beechcraft 1900D (registration 5Y-VVQ) crash landed at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, Kenya.  The accident happened yesterday (November 9, 2009) sometime after 8:00 AM ...
  5 days ago

• Somali pirates seize weapons ship, attack tanker

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 614
  The Somalia pirates again reach out even farther in their attempt to takeover the waterways around the Horn of Africa ! And now they have more weapons to do it with ! .... MOGADISHU ( Reuters ) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of ...
  5 days ago

• Man stoned to death in Somalia for adultery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Mogadishu, Nov 7 (DPA) Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death in the port town of Marka for committing adultery, officials said.“The 33-year-old man Abbas (Hussein Abdurahman) confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have implemented his reward in front of the people in ...
  1 week ago

• Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

  
  Grumpy Old Ken — Authority: 112
  One of my public speaking spiels is tongue in cheek entitled Is the Whole World going Mad or is it Me. And you dont have to go far for material. The worry is it may be getting worse. October for instance was brilliant, not counting my alternative news material. (2 nd November) A prisoner from a New York jail, in ...
  1 week ago

• Somali rebels ban musical ring tones, say they are unIslamic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov.5 (ANI): Hardline al Shabaab insurgents who seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu have banned “corrupt” musical ring tones.Al Shabaab, which America says is al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia, wants to topple the country’s UN-backed government and impose its own strict version of Sharia law.According ...
  1 week ago

• Rival Somali pirates, militias fight for custody of British couple

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  MOGADISHU, Somalia - Rival pirates and militia groups have fought for control over a British couple held hostage for more than a week, an Islamic militia commander and a local elder said Monday. The couple were not injured in the fighting.
  1 week ago

• Christian in Somalia Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 134
  ‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian.NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27 (CDN) — Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 Civilians Killed 15 Injured in Fresh Somali Fighting.

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  At least 6 civilians have been killed and more than 15 wounded on Wednesday morning in clashes between Somali Islamist rebels and African Union (AU) solders in Somalia. The fighting began when Islamist fighters attacked the African peace keepers’ base in the capital, then triggering heavy fighting followed ...
  2 weeks ago

• British sailing couple seized by Somali pirates

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  A British couple from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK have been seized by pirates while sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania. A spokesman for the pirates confirmed to a local New York Times reporter in Somalia by telephone that the couple was being taken to Xarardheere , a pirate stronghold on the Somali coast north of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Somali Shabaab Rebels Say They Shot Down U.S. drone

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 505
  By Abdi Sheikh Hardline Somali Islamist insurgents from Hisbul Islam patrol the streets of the capital Mogadishu, October 19, 2009. Hardline al Shabaab rebels have destroyed a mosque and the grave of a revered Sufi Muslim sheikh in central Somalia after shooting in the air to drive away local ...
  3 weeks ago

• SOMALIA: Shell fire kills at least 30 in Mogadishu

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 125
  MOGADISHU Oct 22 (Reuters) – Artillery battles between Islamist insurgents, Somali government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers killed at least 30 people in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, residents and medical workers said.Witnesses said the rebels launched volleys of mortar bombs at the heavily guarded ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shell fire kills at least 30 in Mogadishu

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 614
  Not to be outdone in the News , The Somali Islamic "Rebels" ( Radical Muslims )start some crap of their own . .... MOGADISHU ( Reuters ) - Artillery battles between Islamist insurgents, Somali government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers killed at least 30 people in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shake your breasts

  
  Stop Street Harassment! — Authority: 421
  In Mogadishu, Somalia, there are Muslim extremists patrolling the streets and whipping people acting “inappropriately.” For men, this means not having a beard. For women, this means wearing a bra.Someone can look at a man and determine if he has a beard or not. To find out if women “have natural firmness or if ...
  3 weeks ago

• Somali Rebels Silence Radio Stations in Baidoa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Somali Islamist rebel group Al-Shabab has shut down two independent radio stations in the city of Baidoa, about 247 kilometers north-west of the capital Mogadishu. In a communiqué the Al-Shabab administration in Baidoa ordered the closure of the only two independent radio stations in the city ; Jubba Radio and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Somali Islamists whip women for wearing bras

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 148
  Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have been ordering women to shake their breasts at gunpoint to see if they are wearing un-Islamic bras. According to Daily Mail, the women are publicly whipped for wearing undergarments, as it is deceptive and violate Islam. The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into ...
  3 weeks ago

• Somalia’s Islamist group whip women for wearing ‘un-Islamic bras’!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Melbourne, Oct 20 (ANI): Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have been ordering women to shake their breasts at gunpoint to see if they are wearing ‘un-Islamic’ bras.According to Daily Mail, the women are publicly whipped for wearing undergarments, as it is ‘deceptive’ and violate Islam.The insurgent group ...
  3 weeks ago

• Al-Qaeda Linked Somali Rebel Group Al-Shabab Bans International Relief Organizations From Operating in the Country

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Al Qaeda-linked Somali rebel group of Al-Shabab has announced that all international relief organizations are banned from operating in the country especially in areas under their control. Al-Shabab spokesman in the southern Jubba regions Sheik Hassan Yaqub Ali accused the World Food Programme and other aid ...
  3 weeks ago

• OPERATION FIRE MAGIC

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 633
  On on the early hours of this day in 1977, members of the Grenshutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9) storm Lufthansa 737 jetliner Flight 181 Landshut in the Somali capital of Mogadishu and freed 86 hostages. Three of the hijackers were killed during the assault; the fourth, a woman, was wounded. The hijackers murdered the aircraft ...
  4 weeks ago

• Somali radio quiz winners offered grenades, guns and ammunition

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Nairobi/Mogadishu, Oct 18 (DPA) Winners of a Somali radio quiz show testing knowledge of the Koran are being offered prizes including grenades, Kalashnikov rifles and ammunition, according to a local report.The prizes offered by an Islamic broadcaster in the port of Kismayo were designed to “encourage the population ...
  4 weeks ago

• No Bras in Mogadishu

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  I dont know how I am going to explain my bikini line! WTF! A Islamic group in Somalia are dragging women out into the streets and whipping them if they are found to be wearing a bra! Hmm, seems the over the shoulder boulder holders are “deceptive” according to hardline Sharia Law followers. So ya want them ...
  4 weeks ago

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