The Al Qaeda-proxy in Somalia Al Shabab has claimed responsibility for the Sunday night deadly terror bombings in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
The group’s spokesman Sheikh Ali Mahmoud Raghe told a press conference in Mogadishu on Monday that his group was behind the twin bomb attacks that rocked Kampala Sunday night which left at least 64 soccer fans watching the final of the World Cup dead.
“Praise be to Allah, our operation went on successfully last night and we are hereby telling with a loud voice that we will carry out more other attacks against our enemies wherever they are in the world,” the Al Shabab spokesman said.
“The governments and the people of Uganda and Burundi defied our previous warnings to refrain from what their troops are doing here and they continued the massacre against our people in Mogadishu, so this is the first of more revenge attacks against them,” the spokesman stated.
He said that young Mujahideens (fighters) carried out the twin blasts on two sites in Kampala on Sunday night, refusing to say what nationalities the young perpetrators who carried out the attacks were.
The leaders of Al Shabab said last week that they have lost patience and the time for revenge attacks against Uganda and Burundi has arrived. Earlier on Monday, the Ugandan police said they believe that Al Shabab was responsible for the terrorist attacks, but investigations were under way.
This is the first such attack that Al Shabab, which is considered as Al Qaeda branch in East Africa has confirmed carrying out against targets abroad. Previously, the group was behind suicide and other terror attacks against Somali government officials and AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu.
Source African Press Agency
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