Amputations by al-Shbab in Somalia

For the record their are people who have view the Islamist courts as a way to bring to stability to Somalia, kinda reminds of bringing in the Taliban and calling it peace.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Six masked men used machetes to carry out amputations on three men accused of robbery by a Somali Islamist court, a witness said Saturday.

Abdulahi Hassan Afrah said the two of the men had both a hand and a foot cut off and a third had only a foot cut off after the Islamic court in the southern port city of Kismayo realized he was already disabled. He said a crowd of around 400 people, mainly women and children, watched the sentence carried out Friday on the three screaming young men.

''It was most painful thing I have ever seen,'' he said.A spokesmen for the al-Shabab militia, Sheik Hassan Yaqub Ali, said the three had admitted robbing passengers on board a truck heading to Kismayo.

None of the three were allowed to appeal the sentence or had access to a lawyer.The Islamic courts were originally set up to try to counter the bloody chaos of Somalia's 18-year-old civil war. Initially their harsh judgments were welcomed by many of the war-weary population and in 2006 the courts formed the basis for an Islamist administration that controlled much of the capital and southern Somalia.

al-Shbab are the same terrorists who have connections to the youth disappearances in Minnesota. They are a ferocious group and are a direct enemy of the United States. We will be hearing more from them in the future.