Journalist killed over Mohammad cartoons in Somalia

A Scandanavian journalist was shot by a sniper and killed instantly in the Somali capital while attending a demonstration organized by the Islamic courts. He worked for a Danish newspaper.

The journalist was variously identified as being Danish or Swedish but was working for a Danish newspaper and was believed to have arrived in Mogadishu from Copenhagen, according to witnesses and staff at the Shamo Hotel where he was staying.

Witnesses said the shooting appeared to have been linked the publication by a Danish newspaper last year of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that enraged many in the Muslim world, including Somalia.

Mogadishu has been under the control of militia loyal to the city's Islamic courts since June 5 when they seized most of the capital, ousting a US-backed warlord alliance.

The killing is the first of a foreign journalist in the city since the shooting death of BBC producer Kate Peyton who was slain outside a hotel in Mogadishu on February 9, 2005. source

This is terrible on so many levels. The journalist was innocent. He didn't draw the Mohammed cartoons, he was simply there to report what was happening. I am firmly convinced that the Mohammed cartoons are just an excuse these people use to kill innocent humans. My heart goes out to the people of Somalia and specifically Mogadishu, where these terrorists/killers have already set up sharia tribunals.