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Issue 446 -- Aug 14- 20, 2010

	Press Release: “The New Gov’t Of Somaliland Is Firmly Committed To The Promotion Of Peace And Security”
	How We Bombed Kampala City
	Somaliland Minister Appeals For Security Cooperation With Neighboring Countries
	Holy Month Of Ramadan Begins
	Las Anod Becomes A Distribution Center Of Food Aid
	10 Km Run In Borama
	Deaf Students Graduate
	Puntland Captures Galgala, Bosaso Police Station Bombed
	Mrs Cindy McCain Visits Halo Somaliland

Local and Regional Affairs

	Samatar gets Lifetime Achievement Award
	United Nations Will Focus On Peace And Security In Somalia
	Owner Of Money Transfer Business Accused Of Fraud
	Suspect Says Rage At US Led Him To Plot Ugandan Bombs
	Ethiopian Airlines Negotiates With Djibouti To Restore Flights
	UK: Was Toxteth Somali Murder An Honor Killing?
	Farah Eats, Sleeps And Trains Like Kenyans
	Killer Sentenced For Somali Man's Death
	K'naan Fires Up Cumberland
	Kenya’s New Constitution: Tribal Loyalty Still Wins The Day
	Ethiopian PM Hints Of Re-Sending Troops To Somalia
	Somaliland New Cabinet Is Sworn, New Governors Appointed
	The Road To Terror Training Camps Sometimes Begins In The U.S.
	Djibouti: Widespread Food Gaps Despite Ongoing Rains

Editorial

Somaliland’s New Government Sending The Wrong Message To The East

Features & Commentary

	U.S. Makes Visible Efforts To Limit Support For Al-Shabaab In Somalia, But Effect Of Policy Is Unclear
	Nadifa Mohamed's "Black Mamba Boy": A Somalian Story
	Is Museveni Somalia’s True Friend Today?
	Africa: Continent At 50
	The AU And Somalia
	Time Holds All The Answers – Even To Somalia And The Colonial Project
	WITH AN EAGLE EYE: Where Is Africa After Amin’s Death?
	Mo Ibrahim: My Encounter With Billionaire With A Difference

International News

	At Ramadan Dinner, Obama Defends Plans For Ground Zero Mosque
	Raila: The Night I Went Into Surgery
	Kofi Annan Calls For United Effort To Accelerate African Green Revolution

Opinion

	1969 Military Coup In Somalia Part XXXVIII
	Ma Kuff Baa, Ma Kaftan Baa, Ma Kafidiigisigii Baa?
	Somaliland Needs A Formidable Opposition Leader
	Somaliland: Beware Of Ismael Omar Guelleh!
	Seventy Ways To Earn Reward From Allah (Part-I)
	Somaliland: No Need Of Political Howl

Killer Sentenced For Somali Man's Death

Shane Pilson, 23, Pleaded Guilty To Voluntary Manslaughter In Death Of Khadar Hassan, 23
San Diego, August 14, 2010 – A man who admitted his involvement in the shooting death of a Somali man during a robbery outside a City Heights taco shop in 2003 was sentenced Wednesday to six years in state prison.
Shane Christopher Pilson, 23, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the August 2003 death of 26-year-old Khadar Hassan, who was shot in the back of the head.
A jury deadlocked on a murder charge during his trial earlier this year
Pilson's alleged accomplice, 31-year-old Sherman Strong, is scheduled to stand trial in October.
Whether or not he fired the fatal shot, Pilson wore a bandana over his face and brought a gun to the taco shop to pull a "lick," Deputy District Attorney Dennis Panish told Judge Kenneth So Wednesday.
Pilson -- who was 16 at the time of the killing -- has a violent criminal history dating back to when he was a juvenile, the prosecutor said.
During trial, Panish said Hassan -- who had been drinking -- approached two assailants with a beer bottle in his hand about 3 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, and was shot when he wouldn't comply with their demands to give them money.
At the time, Hassan and two friends were waiting for their orders outside the Taco Fiesta taco shop, according to evidence presented at trial.
Source: 10NEWS.COM Thursday, August 12, 2010

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