-Somalia insurgents accuse Kenya over border security

NAIROBI, March 8 (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents controlling southern Somalia have accused Kenyan troops of crossing into their territory and warned the east African nation to stop troop movements along their common border.The group has been angry at Kenya since it helped to capture Islamists trying to flee Ethiopian and Somali government troops in early 2007. "Kenya has been making false allegations of facing danger from the border, and that is a great danger to the region's security and stability," the Islamists said on their web site www.kataaib.info."We believe that they intend to destroy the Islamic administration implemented in Somalia," said al Shabaab, a hardline Islamist group opposed to a new moderate president.Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula said duty to patrol the border must not be seen as passing troops to Somalia. "Kenya has continuously patrolled its borders with Somalia because we are neighbouring an unstable country ... a failed state. We don't want to take anything for granted," he said in Nairobi.Kenya closed the 1,200-km (745-mile) border after the Ethiopians chased the Islamic Courts Union from Mogadishu early in 2007, but the flow of refugees increased despite the closure.In December, al Shabaab crossed into the country through the remote border town of El Wak and kidnapped two Italian nuns who were held in Mogadishu for 101 days. Al Shabaab, which is on Washington's list of terrorist groups, and allied Islamist militia control most of southern Somalia...more..http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKL866005._CH_.2420