Rockets hit Mogadishu market, 12 dead in chaos Thu 19 Apr 2007, 16:46 GMT By Sahal Abdulle MOGADISHU, April 19 (Reuters) - Rockets slammed into a Mogadishu market on Thursday amid battles between troops and Somali insurgents that killed at least 12 civilians but probably many more, residents said. Heavy shelling resounded around the coastal capital as Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies targeted insurgent strongholds in residential areas. Minibuses raced scores of wounded to packed hospitals where doctors lost count of the operations they were performing. "Six consecutive missiles hit. ... There are many wounded," said Hassan Ibrahim, who drove a minivan full of injured people to Madina Hospital from the central Al Barakah district. Screams resounded through the hospitals' corridors. A Reuters witness saw a tiny baby boy, 40 days old, being operated on for a bad stomach wound. The boy survived. "One shell landed four feet from where I was," said resident Barlin Salad. "It wounded three people and killed two others." Witnesses said several rockets slammed into the Al Barakah market when it was crowded with shoppers. Electricity is severely rationed in the bullet-scarred city, and women usually trek to markets each afternoon to buy fresh milk. "A lot of women were crying and men were running and pulling people out from under rubble all over the place," market worker Adan Kulow, who was injured by shrapnel, told Reuters. "I saw about 20 wounded people carried away on hand carts."………… http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnL19298616.html

The Bush Administration funded and encouraged the warfare in Somalia, led by the Ethiopian military. This has resulted in the deaths of well over a thousand Somali civilians in Mogadishu. Western media has coined a term, “Islamist”, to make it something that it isn’t. The government of Ethiopia must distance itself from a Bush Administration policy that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. The transitional Somali government of President Abdullahi Yusuf must look at its inability to govern the Somali people in a realistic manner. This slaughter of so many of its own people has only made the probability of it governing more impossible. African leaders must distance themselves from American and other Western money which is used to divide the people and encourage them to fight and kill each other. As this slaughter is taking place, those same instigators are taking the time to plan how to best seize Somali resources at the absolute cheapest price and establish a military base there. U.S. push for Sudan sanctions opposed Britain and the United States said Wednesday they will propose new U.N. sanctions to pressure the Sudanese government and rebels to stop the fighting in Darfur, but Russia, China and South Africa opposed any new measures….. http://fe56.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_af/un_sudan Some of the American and European NGOs instigate division in the Darfur region of Sudan as they have in Somalia. There is nothing new about this old game. South Africa’s position with regards to Sudan and Somalia is the correct one. In fact, American and Canadian churches have been investing in the oil industry in Sudan for more than a decade. Now you know the real purpose of much of the “missionary” work in Africa. Have you been wondering where the Mormon church has acquired much of its wealth from? The Ugandan troops serve no benefit by being in Somalia. They are commissioned to protect a government the Somali people and many within its own Parliament are having problems supporting. Therefore, the Bush Administration and Britain’s Tony Blair are now promoting the deployment of UN troops in Somalia. Hmmmm…… that was tried in the early 1990s and failed miserably. The Somali people can choose their own leaders and govern themselves, even with “islamist” leaders. One cannot deny that the Union of Islamic Courts was more favorable with the Somali people than what has been embraced by the Investor Class of America and Western Europe. Imperialism and colonialism must be rejected. Imagine what Black dollars could do for business in Somalia, if the people were not at each others throats. We would like to bring the capital investment to develop the oil & gas industry to benefit all Somali people. How can this be done when the Somali transitional leaders are accepting $100 million in what can only be said to be blood money? This is the amount the Bush Administration is to contribute. The lives of Somali men, women and children are more precious than this. How can the Investor Class in America talk about the displacement of people in Sudan when, proportionately, far more Somalis have been displaced by the actions promoted by American and British greed? This continuing slaughter in Somalia is still genocide and we must oppose it.