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By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 9, 2009; 10:22 AM MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A spokesman says a Somali Islamic court has cut
off the hands of two men accused of theft and lashed another accused of
rape.
Al-Shabab militia spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage says the men had
admitted the charges against them. An eyewitness says knives were used to cut a hand off each of the
screaming men on a large table. He declined to be named for fear of
reprisals. Wednesday's punishment by courts connected to a powerful insurgent group
shows the shaky U.N.-backed government's inability to control even
Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu. Such strict punishments are historically unusual in Somalia and analysts
say they are partly a reaction to the chaos of the civil war.
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