Somali Islamists threaten US after blasts

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A leader of Somalia's Islamist Shebab militia accused the United States Friday of trying to kill him in a deadly weekend bomb attack and vowed revenge strikes against American citizens.
The threat was issued by Fu'ad Shongole, the head of mobilisation for the Al-Qaeda-inspired group, who was injured in the twin bombing in the capital Mogadishu on May 1 that killed at least 32 people.
"We are sending the following message to Americans and their allies: they take aim at us, we will target them... we will cut their throats wherever we find them", said Fu'ad Shongole.
"After having failed in their war against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Americans are starting to plant bombs in mosques and densely populated areas", he said.
"If you plot to harm us, we too will kill you".
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombings in the Bakara market district of Mogadishu, an area controlled by the Shebab, although the government has called the attack a "barbaric act".
The explosions ripped through the mosque just as Fu'ad Shongole was addressing new recruits. He was wounded in the arm and two other Shebab commanders were killed, the group said.
On Thursday a spokesman from Amison, the African Union Mission in Somalia, said the Shebab had prepared ten car bombs in Mogadishu and warned

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