Shebab and allied foreign fighters control much of southern Somalia -- a no-go zone for most humanitarian organisations. Photo AFP.Islamists In Somalia Threaten Other Nations -- New York Times
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A senior leader of the Shabab, the most feared Islamist insurgency in Somalia, said his forces would soon attack the capitals of Uganda and Burundi in retaliation for the alleged shelling by African Union peacekeepers of a Mogadishu market on Thursday.
The union’s peacekeeping force of more than 5,000 is comprised mostly of soldiers from Uganda and Burundi.
“If our people are killed today, they will see a loud cry over Kampala and Bujumbura,” the Shabab commander, Sheik Ali Mohamed Hussein, told reporters late Thursday, referring to the capitals of Uganda and Burundi.
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