Somalia
Radio chief killedPosted Feb 15 2009
The director of Somalia's independent HornAfrik radio station, Said Tahlil Ahmed, was killed in Mogadishu on Feb. 4, the BBC reports.
An eyewitness told the BBC that a group of journalists were attacked on their way to a press conference called by the hardline Islamist militia Al-Shabab.
A spokesman for the group denied any responsibility for the killing.
Al-Shabab does not support the new president—Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist—recently elected by MPs as part of the peace process.
Civilians and journalists gathered outside the HornAfrik station in Mogadishu after last Wednesday's killing, while fighters belonging to the Union of Islamic Courts, loyal to the new president, turned up to provide security.
Ahmed is the third senior employee of the popular HornAfrik radio station to be killed in the past two years.
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- BBC