Students, doctors, government officials (including a Somali-American) and journalists all massacred in the name of the Religion of Peace.
From CNN:
Meanwhile, the rest world leaders go, 'tsk-tsk-tsk' and issue boilerplate statements condemning the bombing and deploring the action. Yep, that'll do it all right.A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing attacked a graduation ceremony in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Thursday, the Somali president said, according to a local journalist.
The African Union said 19 people were killed in the attack, which struck a ceremony being held at Hotel Shamo for Banadir University's medical school. The government said three government ministers lay among the dead, and journalists reported that two journalists were killed.
Nine students and two doctors also were killed, according to a professor at Banadir University.
At a news conference, Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed displayed what he said was the body of the bomber, according to a Radio Mogadishu journalist who was there. CNN is not naming the journalist for security reasons. (Dhimmitude in action.) The president blamed the Islamist group Al-Shabaab for the attack. The body the president displayed had a beard. The president also showed the remains of the suicide belt and shreds of a hijab -- a loose, dress-like garment -- at the news conference, according to the journalist.
The government named the three slain ministers as Education Minister Abdullahi Wayel, Health Minister Qamar Aden and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow.
Adow, a Somali-American, served as the foreign secretary of the Islamic Courts Union when it held Mogadishu in 2006.
Sports Minister Suleman Olad Roble was hospitalized in critical condition, his relatives told local media. Initial reports after the bombing said Roble was killed in the blast.
The journalists killed were Mohamed Amiin Abdullah of Shabelle Media Network and freelance cameraman Hassan Ahmed Hagi, who worked closely with the network.
