Somalis demonstrate against U.S. airstrike

Somalis demonstrate against U.S. airstrike
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday May 4, 2008 13:31:45 EDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia — More than a thousand people demonstrated Sunday against a U.S. airstrike last week that killed the reputed head of al-Qaida in Somalia along with 24 other people in a central Somali town, organizers said.

The protesters — most of them women and children — took to the streets in Dusamareeb shouting “Down with the Bush administration, the so-called superpower!” and “Down with their stooges!”

Town chairman Mohamed Mohamud Warsame said by phone that about half of the town’s population of 3,000 people had taken part in the demonstration.

Abdi-risaq Moalim Ahmed, the head of education in the town, said three students died and four were seriously injured in Thursday’s airstrike on the house of Aden Hashi Ayro. He said the students were between the ages of 13 and 19.

“Our town has been severely affected by the recent U.S. attack and still we fear because planes continue to fly over our city,” Ahmed said.


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