New Terror War Atrocity: Beheading the Innocent for Bush in Somalia

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New Terror War Atrocity: Beheading the Innocent for Bush in Somalia
Written by Chris Floyd
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Earlier this week, we noted reports that Ethiopian invaders in Somalia had killed several moderate clerics and other unarmed people in a mosque north of Mogadishu during the recent bloody reprisals against civilian areas launched by the Bush-backed invaders and their Somali allies. At the time, sketchy reports from the BBC indicated that at least 10 people had been killed in the mosque.

Now Amnesty International has charged Ethiopian soldiers with killing 21 people in the mosque -- and slitting the throats of seven of their victims, the Herald-Sun reports. Amnesty said the invaders are also holding dozens of children they captured during the raid:


Amnesty said those killed at the mosque included imam Sheikh Saiid Yaha and several scholars of the moderate Tabligh group that operated there.

"Eye-witnesses report that those killed inside the mosque were unarmed civilians taking no active part in hostilities," Amnesty said. "Seven of the 21 were reported to have died after their throats were cut - a form of extra-judicial execution practiced by Ethiopian forces in Somalia."

....Amnesty urged the Ethiopian military to release all 41 children it said were held after the mosque raid."Witnesses have told Amnesty International that Ethiopian forces would only release the children from their military base in north Mogadishu 'once they had been investigated' and 'if they were not terrorists'," it said.

Some of the children - who were aged as young as nine - were reported to have been freed, though the majority were still in custody, Amnesty said.

Witnesses said they had seen beheaded bodies lying outside the mosque after the fighting.


Let us stress the plain fact once again: These atrocities are the direct result of a "regime change" operation launched with the funding, arming, training -- and direct military intervention -- of the United States government. It is the third violent overthrow of a government in the global War of Terror launched by George W. Bush: a brutal campaign of imperial smash-and-grab which has the full backing of all three presidential candidates (although they do bicker a bit on how to prosecute the war more efficiently).