Senior Somali Islamist Says Shifting War To Kenya's Capital -- Reuters
* Threatens attacks by teenage suicide bombers
* Kenya already reeling from blasts, shopping mall raid
* Al Shabaab's Fuad Mohamed Khalaf wanted by Washington
MOGADISHU, May 22 (Reuters) - A senior Somali Islamist commander said his group had moved its holy war to Kenya's capital, threatening to launch attacks by teenage suicide bombers on a city already reeling from bomb blasts and a deadly militant assault on a shopping mall.
Somalia's al Shabaab group has declared war on its neighbour before, but Fuad Mohamed Khalaf's comments suggested an escalation in a campaign that has piled pressure on the Kenyan government and alarmed regional and global powers.
"We have transferred the war to inside Nairobi," Khalaf, one of al Shabaab's most senior officials, said in a speech posted on the Somali website www.somalimemo.net.
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