A really sad African nightcap to the South African world cup success. Apparently, to these lunatics, football represents western decadence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/12/AR2010071200476.html

The militia, which seeks to create an Islamic emirate and has imposed Taliban-like dictates, has banned playing soccer in many areas and prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as "a satanic act" that corrupts Muslims.

Yep, a sad ending to the World Cup by a bunch of nut jobs.

I worked in Somalia late 1987 to late 1988. On first flight into Mogadishu, looked so colonial, white houses inside walled compounds. On the streets people living in thatched stick huts outside those compounds. (This is pre Blackhawk down). Even back then under the surface they were nutjobs. We under contract were obligated to drill water wells for outlying villages up in the northeast. One of the drill crews was forced out of a village by gun point, reason being if they had a water well in their village, they wouldn't get foreign aid. We had a contract catering company, (Somali) all the food in the pantry was a gift of some foreign country. What a free enterprise system, get free food from foreign aid, then sell it off to foreigners working there. Even back then, a lot of people had AK-47's.

I hope this wasn't off topic.