PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so.“Those groups, I would advise them to concentrate on solving their own problems. If they decide to attack us, they will pay heavily because we know how to deal with those who attack us,” he told journalists at the end of the African Union summit in Kampala yesterday.He warned that Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia would pursue and attack al Shabaab rebels if they acted on their threat.“In Mogadishu we are not active, we are just monitoring. If they say they want to come and kill people in Kampala like they are killing in Somalia, we know where to get them.”Museveni was reacting to a statement by hardline al Shabaab insurgents who vowed to strike the capitals of Uganda and Burundi in revenge for rocket attacks that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu on Thursday.“We shall make their people cry. We’ll attack Bujumbura and Kampala. We will move our fighting to those two cities and we shall destroy them,” hawiye Terrorist Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al Shabaab commander, told reporters late on Thursday in Mogadishu...more..http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/698828
Hawiye Terrorist Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein,TF.SF picture file
Al-Shabab Threatens Uganda, Burundi
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