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• BEHEADING MURDERS OF KIDS HORRIFY CALGARY'S SOMALI COMMUNITY
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CALGARY — The Somali community in Calgary is reeling upon hearing the news that a former city cab driver has been arrested for beheading his four children.

“That’s unheard of,” said Mohamed Jama, president of the Somali Canadian Society of Calgary.

“The community is very shocked, very shocked,” he said.

“I don’t know whether the guy is insane and we don’t know what’s behind the story.”

A Mogadishu-based journalist for All Voices, an online news website, reports that Omar Shire Hussein, 60, beheaded his four children.

The kids, ranging in age between 11 and 6, were reportedly killed just outside the city of Beledweyne, in the Hiirran province in central Somalia.

The reason for beheading the kids is not known and it’s unclear whether Hassan was mentally unstable.

The kids’ mother, Khadro Xuseen, told the state run media that she knew Hussein to be in good health and that he had a good personality.

The mother identified her children as Sakariye, Yonis, Yaxye and Idiris.

The parents are no longer married and Xussen lives in Mogadishu, while the incident occurred in an area 330 km. north of the Somali capital.

Jama said the story is very sad and tragic.

“It’s unheard of among the Somali community, taking life, especially of loved ones and children.”

Jama said he’s been asking around the community to find out about Hussein, but no one among the cab drivers he knows have been able to identify the man.

“It’s very sad that the man is from Calgary but we need to find and confirm his identity.”

The identity of the man remains in question as major cab companies in Calgary have all said their records don't show anyone by that name as a past employee.

Mudhir Mohamed, former president of SCSC, has been trying to track information about the man, but he's yet to find anyone who may know Hussein.

Since the story broke Tuesday night, Mohamed said some of his Somali friends have been searching for anyone who may know the former city cab driver.

"It was shocking to hear a story like this," he said.

Mohamed said people he has spoken with couldn't come up with an explanation why a father would kill four children.

Beatrice Fenelon, a spokeswoman for the foreign affairs department, said in an e-mail that Canadian officials are "aware of reports of a possible consular case in Somalia.

"However, consular officials have not received a request for assistance," she said.

The RCMP can neither confirm nor deny whether they have been asked to help in the investigation.

Prem Watsa, The Indian Behind BlackBerry's $4.7 Billion Buyout

Bangalore: Ever heard of Prem Watsa? ‘No’ must be the answer by millions, but this is a man that every single aspirant entrepreneur or a business rookie must idolize. So, who is Prem Watsa? Well, let’s spread the facts; he is called the “Canadian Warren Buffet”; he is an entrepreneur and an investor; he is the chairman and the CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto, Canada; also he was one among mobile giant Blackberry’s board of directors and on Monday, Blackberry has announced that it had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings in a $4.7 Billion deal- now that is an impressive build up! So without any further adieu, let’s know more about this Indian quintessential, who is on a hardcore mission to bring back Blackberry on track, while others only see a lost cause.

Who is Prem Watsa?

Prem Watsa (born 1950 in Hyderabad, India) is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto, Ontario.He has been called the "Canadian Warren Buffett" by some during successful periods of investing.

He is a CFA charterholder, an alumnus of the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a holder of an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the The Hospital for Sick Children, a member of the Advisory Board for the Richard Ivey School of Business, a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

In June 2009, he was installed as the ninth chancellor of the University of Waterloo. On January 22, 2012, it was reported he was to be appointed to BlackBerry handset maker, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), board of directors in the company's largest ever corporate shakeup. Mr Watsa resigned in August 2013, but kept his investment in the company at the time. On September 23 2013, Blackberry announced that it had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Prem Watsa led Fairfax Financial Holdings in a $4.7 Billion deal. Forty two years after he migrated to Canada, V Prem Watsa, who was then just another IIT engineer in search of an MBA, now holds the future of an ailing, but still iconic Blackberry in his hands. On Monday afternoon, a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings, Watsa’s flagship company, bid $9 a share to buy out Blackberry. A 1971 batch IIT Chennai graduate in chemical engineering, Watsa arrived in Canada with little more than pocket change with which to pursue his dreams. He did his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Since then, he has made a name for himself, mostly as an investor who identifies distressed and undervalued assets, bets on them, and reaps returns. Fairfax Financial Holdings, an insurance-cum-investment company that Watsa founded in 1985, went on to become Canada’s most profitable company in 2008. “I know he is an ardent admirer of Warren Buffett and is sometimes referred to as the Warren Buffett of Canada,” says MG Venkatesh Mannar, the Ottawa-based President of The Micronutrient Initiative, and Watsa’s senior at IIT-Madras. “I remember him then as a shy and reserved person.