Tat,+Darren+6

Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8394389.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/africa/04somalia.html?ref=africa

Summary: In December 3rd, 2009, Thursday, there was a suicide bomb attack at the Shamo Hotel located in Mogadishu. In result of the bombing, at least 15-19 people were killed, 60 were injured, and 3-4 government ministers were killed in the bombing. The bomb occurred during the graduation of medical students and people began to start panicking for their lives. "I had to step over their bodies to get out-people were screaming 'Is it a bomb? Is it a bomb?'" said Mohammed Olad Hassan. The death of the Prime ministers were Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali, Education Minister Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Addow and Sports Minister Saleban Olad Roble. There is no one that's held responsible for the attack yet, but some believe it was the work of Islamist militants al-Shabab. The U.S has been giving millions of dollars to the government, but because of rampant defections, many of the guns fell into the hands of al-Shabab. The suicide bomber was described as a male dressed in woman's clothing, complete with a veil and female shoes.

Compare&Contrast: These two sources are just absolutely different! There were different facts about the amount that were killed/injured, different type of quotes, different details, different titles, different pictures, and the only thing that was the same was the same topic. In the BBC News, it was claimed that 19 people were killed, and 4 government ministers were killed as well, but in The New York Times, it claimed that there were at least 15 people killed and 3 government ministers killed. The facts were different, there were different details, there were just a lot that was different.

Opinion: My opinion about the event is that this is just a horrific event, someone killing innocent students that were about to graduate from Medical students is just terrible. I mean, what will happen to Somalia? There has been a lot of similar attacks just like this one recently, and what will happen to the government ministers that were killed? I'm assuming that they are going to have to be replaced so the new ministers can take on the duties required. My opinion to the coverage is that these two sources were very confusing. I didn't know which one had the right facts, and details about the scene, so i didn't know which source to believe. There were a lot of things where this whole thing was just confusing.