Somali+Capital+Hit+Hard


 * Somali Capital Hit Hard by Derek Mar**

People were attacked by Islaimic militants with mortars at the Somali's international airport. The mortars were sent right as the Africa president(Sharif Ahmed) was boarding a plane today. The president was unhurt and his plane took off okay, but at least 24 civilians were killed and there were 60 wounded. The president was headed to Uganda for an African Union summit based on some sources. Somalia's capital, otherwise known as Mogadishu has seen lots of fights there and blood as groups there that are linked to al-Quida try to overthrow the government other there. Also people who were living in residental areas that were close to the airport were also wounded or killed too. At least 20 bodies that were mostly civilians were laying on the streets after the attack. The violence that happened today was just one of many events that killed people, these situations that are happening to Somalia are also happening at other places such as Afghanistan. But at Afghanaistan, the U.S and NATO forces are battling Taliban militants, the militants fire on the international troops that are in the residential area so that they may hope to draw return fire that may kill the civilians. The commander of the U.S and NATO forces has not returned any fire because it would turn the Afghans there against them. The AU (African Union Peacekeepers) in Somalia, deny any firing into residental areas. One of the spokesmen, Barigye Bahoku said "insurgents are actually shelling the residential areas they control to make it appear the AU is responsible." Somalias doubt that what they said is actually true.

The two sources were different in my opinion based on their coverage. I mean the Seattle Times probably had the best coverage than my other source, Al Jazeera because they gave more specific information and data. The article from the Al Jazeera covered some points the Seattle Times didn't have like more in depth info about the kind of people that were suspected to be linked to the al-Quida. Each article had a picture that showed what happened to the people exactly. So each article had its better things about the other but both of them pretty well, in my opinion.

Sources: The Seattle Times: [] Al Jazeera: []

I think that it's horrible that this country is being attacked this much and should be stopped as fast as possible. This event showed how badly this country and its capital is getting hit by militants and groups of people possibly linked to the al-Quida. All these people's lives are being killed all because of this fighting and trying to overthrow the government. Somali's government should like try to bring all the help they could get from all around the world to try to find these "bad" people who are doing this to them and the people living in this country.