they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu. "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," Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al-Shabaab commander, told reporters late on Thursday in Mogadishu.Burundi and Uganda both have about 2 500 peacekeepers in the Somali capital for the African Union's (AU) Amisom force.Reuters witnesses said they fired at least 35 rockets into the capital's Bakara market area on Thursday after al-Shabaab gunmen there launched mortar shells at President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's plane as he left the airport for a summit in Uganda.The United States accuses the rebel group, which wants to topple Ahmed's fragile United Natins-backed administration and impose its own strict verison of Islamic law across the country, of being al-Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of Africa state.Amisom's spokesperson in Mogadishu, Major Barigye Ba-hoku, denied on Friday that the AU soldiers had fired any artillery and blamed Thursday's civilian deaths on rebel bombs."We did not shell any place ... We are investigating and the Somali government is investigating too," Ba-hoku told Reuters..more..http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-10-23-somalias-alshabaab-threatens-uganda-burundi
Friday, October 23, 2009
Somalia's al-Shabaab threatens Uganda, Burundi
they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu. "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," Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al-Shabaab commander, told reporters late on Thursday in Mogadishu.Burundi and Uganda both have about 2 500 peacekeepers in the Somali capital for the African Union's (AU) Amisom force.Reuters witnesses said they fired at least 35 rockets into the capital's Bakara market area on Thursday after al-Shabaab gunmen there launched mortar shells at President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's plane as he left the airport for a summit in Uganda.The United States accuses the rebel group, which wants to topple Ahmed's fragile United Natins-backed administration and impose its own strict verison of Islamic law across the country, of being al-Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of Africa state.Amisom's spokesperson in Mogadishu, Major Barigye Ba-hoku, denied on Friday that the AU soldiers had fired any artillery and blamed Thursday's civilian deaths on rebel bombs."We did not shell any place ... We are investigating and the Somali government is investigating too," Ba-hoku told Reuters..more..http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-10-23-somalias-alshabaab-threatens-uganda-burundi
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