“ABDUCTION IN AFRICA”
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© 2008 by Estaban Bacca
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Mogadishu, Somalia (Newswire) – Two English nuns were abducted from a hospital by Somali gunmen Sunday, hours after a leading Muslim cleric condemned Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam and violence.
The nuns, who have not been identified, were taken from the S.O.S. Hospital in northern Mogadishu by several gunmen, said Mohamed Hamid, a doctor at the facility, which serves destitute mothers and infants. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abductions, and it was not clear if they were directly linked to the Pope's comments.
Earlier Sunday, a Somali cleric criticized the comments the Pope made in a speech last week for offending Muslims. The Pope had cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, as "evil and inhuman."
"The Pope's statement at this time was not only wrong but irresponsible as well," said a Sheik of the Somali Muslim Scholars Association. "Both the Pope and the Byzantine Emperor he quoted are ignorant of Islam and its noble Prophet," he told journalists at a news conference in the capital Mogadishu.
In Rome, Vatican spokesman called the nun's abductions "a horrible episode," an Italian news agency said. "We are praying that they will be returned unharmed."
Somalia had been without an effective central government since warlords overthrew its longtime dictator in 1991 and divided the nation into fiefdoms. At that time people began leaving the country to escape the hunger, rape, and death that became widespread.
Islamic fundamentalists stepped into the vacuum as an alternative military and political power. The current interim government was established two years ago with the support of the United Nations, but had failed to assert any power outside its base in Baidoa, 150 miles from Mogadishu. The Islamic group, which seized the capital and much of southern Somalia, was credited with bringing a semblance of order to the country after years of anarchy, but some of its leaders had been linked to al Qaeda and many feared an emerging Taliban-style regime.
Supposed faction leaders were also losing power to renegade groups. Though they claimed to represent the Somali state they could not send militias to some parts of the city center without starting a fight.
Mogadishu was a destroyed, desperate city after twenty years of civil war. Lamp posts that hadn't been illuminated in years were pocked with bullet holes and shrapnel. Cathedrals, courthouses and homes had been bombed into rubble or dismantled brick by brick.
If, some day, one of these faction leaders succeeded in controlling the city he would turn to the rest of the country and find that no one cared who was in control of Mogadishu.
From the moment they had been seized the young nuns were filled with terror. The Sisters Elizabeth and Jane had only recently arrived from England and their knowledge of the language was minimal. They understood virtually nothing the gunmen barked at them and consequently they were moved along by rough shoves and slaps.
They had been forced up into the back of an open truck where more armed and leering thugs were waiting. As the truck made its way through the warren of Mogadishu’s back streets there was no attempt to conceal the two nuns. To the contrary, they were pointed at with much laughter. It was as if the thugs were saying ‘Look what we have!’ and the people in the streets waved back, laughing along with the gunmen and jeering at the captive nuns. Sisters Elizabeth and Jane saw hopelessly that there would be no intervention from the very populace they had come to Somalia to help.
The truck pulled up before a run down building on the outskirts of the city. The women were hauled out and unceremoniously hustled inside. They were shoved into an empty, windowless room. One of the men came forward to roughly grab and lift the hem of Sister Jane’s habit. She stood shaking and quivering as the man leered at her long ivory toned legs. He reached a dirty hand down and roughly squeezed her clad sex.
Sister Elizabeth was trying to be braver than her weeping friend but she was sure that they were both about to be raped. Before anything further could happen though, another of the gunmen stepped forward and barked an order. Reluctantly the first man let go of the fabric in his fist and angrily stalked from the room.
Their savior of the moment wheeled and followed the first man out. The slammed the door behind him. There was the sound of a key in the lock and then a silence that Sister Jane immediately broke with a fresh burst of sobbing. Although older by two years Sister Jane had become far more emotionally disturbed by the violence that had engulfed them.
Despite the room’s blackness, Sister Elizabeth found her distraught friend and held her comfortingly.
“We must pray, Sister.” She told her trembling companion.
Elizabeth wanted their prayers to assure Sister Jane that all would be well if they held onto their faith but she knew in her heart that they were in mortal danger. Not only might they be murdered but she fully expected that they would have to endure a time of living hell before they were released to rest in heaven.
The Nuns were kept in the dark room under crude conditions for two whole days. During that time they had to get by without bathing. A foul smelling bucket had been placed in one corner. The use of it without the benefit of light challenged and disgusted them.
They became quite hungry as they were given only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water each day. Despite Sister Elizabeth’s best efforts to keep their spirits up, her constant dread of what lay ahead was soul killing.
The warlord who called himself General Keenadiid ran the group of gangsters that had grabbed Sisters Elizabeth and Jane. It amused him and was sometimes useful to proclaim his band of thugs to be freedom fighters but Keenadiid’s only real goals were money and power.
He had sent his men to the hospital to steal medical supplies. When the lieutenant he had sent reported the presence of the nuns by phone he had ordered them taken.
It had occurred to him that following the Pope’s remarks an al Qaeda cell he knew of might be willing to pay something for the privilege of beheading two Catholic bitches. But the time spent negotiating had proved fruitless.
The al Qaeda leader had shown no real interest. He’d said that the publicity from executing innocent women would make their cause appear cowardly but that he would pay if Keenadiid could send him a diplomat or a priest to make an example of.
Then the international furor over the abduction had given Keenadiid new hope. He had sent off a ransom demand addressed to the Catholic Church in care of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa. He had little hope that they would break any precedent by negotiating with him but it was worth a try.