Somalian extremists shoot two for watching World Cup

SOMALI Islamist militia shot dead two people who wanted to watch the World Cup semi-final, in the latest sign of a hardline religious edge to the newly-powerful movement, witnesses said yesterday.

Four others were wounded in the fracas outside a cinema.

The Islamists, who kicked US-backed warlords out of Mogadishu then took control of a large swathe of southern Somalia last month, initially sought to project a moderate image but have been increasingly showing a more radical side.

And they still believe they're right. Paradise awaits? For causing mindless grief all around, I don't think so.