Leading clergy men from all regions of the country expressed their dismay about this scandalous assault and encouraged people not to abandon God’s house in fear of the crusader’s terror campaign which is bound to strengthen the word of God.  Emotions are running high all over the country as this amounts to attack on the last thing left in the hearts of the masses and the finger points all to one place –Ethiopian intelligence, UNISOM and their pay master (USA).

This wholesale bombing of the mosque is perpetuated by Somali mercenaries who were hired and trained in explosive handling by the same occupation forces who have been running failing and expensive battles against the Islamists for some time. The TFG (their horse) is in no position, even if it wishes, to play its famous mischievous acts. Its militias are not aware of the disaster as they are fighting among themselves in Dharkinley district of Mogadishu nonstop for the past week – they are always immersed in their own in-flights. The parliament and the government are about to disappear from the scene as they have their own political war over who will lead the ineffective and enlarged never was parliament.

Those who can’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it

Was this mass massacre the gist of the over publicised offensive the TFG and its handlers were promising to stage in order to flush out the Islamists from Mogadishu? I hope not! But the trajectory of this new spat on God’s houses paints a different but fearful picture that has the hallmark of backfiring to the enemies of God. See Mosque Pictures   - killing in the God’s house.

Abu Huriera Mosque in the Bakara market was attacked a week ago with a land mine which killed one worshiper and injured some. The target at the time was Sheikh Aweys-the Hisbu Islam leader- who was reading his prayers along with the local worshipers in the Mosque. This act failed to raise eye brows as it was confined to the gate of the Mosque and most of the people at the time blamed the old unexploded ordinance, often from AMISOM shells, as they can’t comprehend that a Mu slim Somali person will ever contemplate of bombing the house of God.

Targeted assassination is not new to Mogadishu but turning inside out a whole community is a new foreign phenomenon which contrasts badly with the Somali culture. Sheikh Faud Khalaf, a high ranking Alshabab commander, was certainly the sole goal of this mass slaughter. The operation was not the work of immature but that of trained professionals as it was planned meticulously to wreak the maximum damage to all worshipers. The first explosion, of the twin explosions, occurred in the first floor and the second one, planted in the ground floor, was delayed a bit to maim the scrambling and confused worshipers  on their way to the exit as a goodbye gesture.

There was strong roamer for the last two months in Mogadishu that the Ethiopian intelligence with the help of the CIA has trained a force of around 100 strong in explosives to be used to target Islamist leaders and some others they deem as undesirables and this weekend’s atrocity is lending credibility to the fear – they chose the explosive teams as financially more attractive than Drones and other military operations that require expensive hardware. The select team’s first operations helped the image of the Islamists at a time the 2006 warlords are building notorious militia, under the name of Ahlu Sunna, to rerun their failed cantonization  paradigm of Mogadishu.

Sheikh Faud Khalaf who survived the attack, surrounded by multitude of admirers, held press conference in Mogadishu Bakara market today. The sheikh took advantage of this sought after press conference to inoculate in to the psyche of the masses who their real enemy is? The sheikh blamed an American security company based in Halane(Ex- Somali military training facility) to have been behind this barbaric action and asked the people to join the Jihad in massive numbers as Islam is under attack.  The people who happen to live under the daily bombardments of AMISOM and who most certainly have lost so many of their relatives and parents to the indiscriminate AMISOM shelling were chanting “Takbir” in unison all the time during the short speech of the Sheikh. The sheikh also pleaded to the Somalis in the Diaspora to donate as much as they can for the noble cause of the country’s defence against the domination of the west – America and its  stooge Tigryan regime. The Sheikh’s only lament, reserved in his conclusion, was the fact that he was not lucky enough to be among the martyrs who he said are with God Watch the Video   

Conclusion – To bow the will of the nation is hard

In conclusion this act of terrorism that has put to shame all that had happened in Somalia for the past two decades arrived at a time the Islamists were craving more than ever a stunt to attract the attention of the nation. This dreadful act which is seen to have been conducted by the enemies of the nation failed in a big way and is bound to generate both financial and manpower to the coffers and ranks of the Islamists.

The Islamists are taking over these days, district after district, of whatever is left of the Galguduud region, after Ahlu Sunna melted down as a consequence of the kiss of death of Mele Sanawi of Ethiopia. They are gaining territories most often without a fight and thus require foot soldiers to maintain their new achievements and this act looks as if it is a just in time answered prayer.   They took over Harar Dheere, the heaven of the pirates, today without a fight – this shows whose side are the masses. The pirates moved their hostage ships and crew to Hobyo(70 miles) up the coast which will itself fall soon into the hands of the Islamists.

God’s hand seems to be at work as the evil projects of the Tigrayan regime of Ethiopia is falling apart one after the other like a house of cards –

It is the yesteryears experiment and will yield the same or even worse outcome – at least the warlords escaped with their life but time will tell if they spare their skin once more.

Abdikarim Buh
Political analyst and WardheerNews contributer
E-mail:abdikarimbuh@yahoo.com

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