Fear in Somali journalist community after killing

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Journalist Mohamed Bashir Hashi's voice broke with emotion as he read a death threat sent to his mobile phone: "If God wills it, you will be the next apostate to be killed."
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After gunmen killed Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi on Saturday, colleagues and friends said they were too scared to attend his funeral that day, since militants in Somalia have targeted such gatherings in the past. Abdi, a 29-year-old director of a radio station, was a father of three.

"Deciding to stay here is so discouraging," Hashi, 23, said Saturday while sitting in a small room at the Shabelle radio station, where Abdi was a reporter. "We can

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