Uganda: al-Shabaab somali islamist group yesterday confirmed it had carried out the two bomb blasts that killed at least 74 people in Kampala
Somalia’s al-Shabaab Islamist group yesterday confirmed it had carried out the two bomb blasts that killed at least 74 people in Kampala and threatened more attacks if the country kept its peacekeeping troops in Somalia. “Al-Shabaab was behind the two bomb blast in Uganda,” Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, al-Shabaab’s spokesman, told reporters in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
“We thank the mujahideens that carried out the attack. We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi, if they do not take out their AMISOM troops from Somalia, blasts will continue and it will happen in Bujumbura too.”
The claim reaffirms the earlier suspicion by the Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura that the militant group was behind the deadly attacks.