The Rant

I am not personally a big fan of the World cup, but this seems a little too strict for me. Bob Clasen Somali Islamist militia kill two over World Cup By Mohamed Ali Bile Reuters Wednesday, July 5, 2006; 12:14 PM MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist militia shot dead two people demanding to watch the World Cup semi-final, witnesses said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of a hardline religious edge to the newly powerful movement. Four others were wounded in the fracas outside a cinema. The Islamists, who kicked U.S.-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. Tuesday night's shooting came when militiamen in the central town of Dusa Mareb -- the home area of the Islamists' hardline leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys -- shut a cinema showing the Germany-Italy semi-final, inhabitants told Reuters. "They stood in front of