Somali official: 6 more UN vehicles missing

NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamic insurgents on Friday vowed to launch more attacks after using stolen U.N. cars in an assault on an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia that killed 21 people. A Somali official said that six more U.N. vehicles were unaccounted for.Thursday's suicide car bombings were the deadliest single attack on AU peacekeepers since they arrived in the lawless African nation in 2007. The bombings also underscored links between al-Qaida's terror network and Somalia's homegrown insurgency.In a message posted Friday on jihadist forums, the Global Islamic Media Front said it was speaking on behalf of Somali insurgent group al-Shabab and vowed more attacks."What is coming is worse and more bitter, with permission from Allah," the group said, according to the Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm.Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad, state minister for defense in Somalia, said there were six more stolen U.N. vehicles unaccounted for and that authorities were monitoring the situation.Al-Shabab, a powerful Islamist group with foreign fighters in its ranks, has claimed responsibility for Thursday's violence and said it was to avenge a U.S. commando raid on Monday that killed a key al-Qaida operative, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, in southern Somalia...more..http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7OaI4_kjeHA-o4UhlmP7vlWmrrwD9APS0480