Photo: Muslim Imam leads prayer over the body of HornAfrik journalist Sa’id Tahlil assassinated in Mogadishu, Feb. 4

Thu Feb 5, 7:37 AM ET

A Muslim Sheikh leads in prayers for slain journalist Said Tahlil Ahmed, the head of private media house HornAfrik in Mogadishu, February 5, 2009. Gunmen shot dead the head of private media house HornAfrik in Mogadishu in the latest assassination of a journalist in Somalia. Ahmed was killed in Mogadishu’s Bakara market, which is often a battleground for government soldiers and Islamist insurgents, witnesses and colleagues said.REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA)

Thu Feb 5, 7:40 PM ET

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, relatives carry the body of Said Tahlil Ahmed, the director of Somalia’s largest media organization HornAfrik, at a funeral on the outskirts of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The three gunmen killed Ahmed while he was walking through Mogadishu’s largest market, Bakara, on Wednesday the company said in the statement posted on its Web site.(AP Photo/Xinhua, Abdurrahman Warsameh)