Saturday, July 17, 2010
Uganda is ready to send an additional 2,000 peacekeeping troops to Somalia despite threats from hard-line Somali Islamists of more attacks if peacekeepers are not withdrawn, an army spokesman said on Friday.
Coordinated explosions ripped through two nightspots in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday, killing 73 people watching the World Cup final.
“If we’re called on to contribute a stronger force in Somalia, we’re ready to send an extra 2,000,” spokesman Felix Kulayigye told Reuters by telephone.
The al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group, which claimed the Kampala strikes, said it was avenging the killing of civilians by the African Union peacekeeping force. Ugandan forces form the backbone of the 6,100-strong deployment in Somalia.
Regional allies have promised to send an extra 2,000 soldiers to Somalia by mid-August.
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http://www.markacade … 2010/20100716_1e.htm
Friday, July 16, 2010
At least one grenade has exploded in northern Mitrovica after a crowd of several hundred local Serbs gathered to march towards a Republic of Kosovo newly established civil registration center at the Albanian and Bosniak-inhabited Bosniak neighbhorood.
According to media reports, one person has died from the explosion, one has recieved life-threatening injuries while nine others light injuries.
It is believed the grenade was thrown from within the crowd into a manhole. The explosion was followed by gunshots from armed Serb groups.
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http://www.newkosova … thern-Mitrovica.html
Three italian soldiers wounded in a firefight occurred in Afghanistan, at south of Bala Murghab, once of the areas more dangerous of the region.
Soldiers where involved in an activity to support afghan forces.
Of the three injured, one is serious and has reported injuries at lung and one shoulder; the conditions of the other are defined serious, about injuries at groin, while third is not serious.
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http://www.tgcom.med … articolo486482.shtml
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
At least 100 islamic extremist militants have been killed in attacks and bombings in tribal region of Orakzai, in Pakistan.
By some days aviation has intensified bombings against talibans bases in different sides of region belonging to the tribal territories in federal administration (Fata) bordering with Afghanistan.
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http://www.corriere. … /1-A_000119773.shtml
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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.
The News:
http://www.monitor.c … /x22umx/-/index.html