Somalia: Al Shabab Threatens Uganda And Burundi

Somalia's al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two countries.

The threat follows the killing on Thursday of at least 30 people in Mogadishu, the capital, by Amisom, the African Union's peacekeeping force to which Uganda and Burundi contribute troops.

Speaking late on Thursday, Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al-Shabab commander, said: "We shall make their people cry. We'll attack Bujumbura and Kampala ... We will move our fighting to those two cities and we shall destroy them."

Burundi and Uganda have each 2,500 peacekeepers for Amisom.

Witnesses said Amisom fired at least 35 rockets into the capital's Bakara market area on Thursday after al-Shabab fighters there launched mortar shells at the aircraft of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Somali president, as he left the airport for a summit in Uganda.

Read the whole story: Al Jazeera.

Comments

[duxguts]

Somalia will have to wait. We have Iran and Syria to take care of first.

[Horst]

GTA Mogadishu

[davidwayneosedach]

And after they are finished with all of Africa - they will take on the Mideast and Europe. In their dreams!

[jsarets]

Not them. Different manifestations of them.

These Sunni Muslim extremist groups aren't hierarchical organizations like governments or militaries. They are organized as networks of cells, loosely aligned by their common opposition to Western imperialism and governments in the Muslim World aligned with imperial interests.

We were attacked on 9/11 by a small extremist cell led by a man whose main grievance was an objection to the U.S. military presence installed in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War and an overly cozy relationship between the Saudi royal family and the Bush family.

The Taliban, al-Qaeda, and al-Shabab are substantially different people. They don't even speak the same native languages. What they have in common is a belief that there is a global empire that oppresses and demeans Muslim people and steals their resources.

Their tactics are terrible, but ours aren't much better, and their grievances aren't exactly fictions.

[mommadona]

REALITY CHECK:

YOUNG THUGS WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR TESTOSTERONE GO ROGUE AND RUIN THEIR COMMUNITY...

Let's not make them any thing else than they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq28qCklEHc

[winningticket]

Isn't it a pity how we break each other's hearts and cause each other pain...George Harrison 1970

[Val Valerian]

The CIA and Xe-style mercenary groups have been in Somalia for years. They keep that stuff there going on purposely to de-stabilize the region, because the ultimate goal is the death of all in Africa and the take-over of all the vast resources. Plain and simple. That's the reason why the USA now has a military command structure with it's fingers in Africa. The Israelis are deep into Africa, too ... anywhere vast resources exist where there are also tribal societies (an annoyance to a global approach) is one that will be taken over ... in 20 years ... Africa would be unrecognizable ... as would everything else. Fortunately, the game is such that it will be, for all intents and purposes, over, very very soon. It's all about another pre-eminent dynamic, which is largely unknown by people in general, that will displace everything here, shortly. I wouldn't worry. Your body may perish but you will always exist, and remember these times as being very instructive.

[MosheDayanHero]

Another idjotic CIA obsessive.

[Paula Ann]

check with John Stockwell about that

[belyeu]

I didn't think it was necessary for anyone to try and destabilize a country that has not had a functioning government for at least 20 years.

[UncleJimbo]

The first guy with the Bullets looks like a Runway Model.....He could get work,seriously!

[MosheDayanHero]

More like runaway model. lol

[UncleJimbo]

That Too!

[GatorAtLarge]

Let them Fight

[CoronaDischarge]

There are limits to all things. As they think to export their anarchy they will become of greater interest to those outside. A broadening of the conflict might well bring its end. And none too soon for the famine plagued region.

[BlueZoo]

The people of Somalia have been crying for over a decade now but the world chooses to ignore their tears! The warlords only want to loot the country for personal gain. Sigh...

[marymansour]

You're right and watch it seep over the border to Kenya and destabilize them once again. Such a pity. We need to put African problems on the front burner and get ourselves out of these endless Mid East conflicts.

[jamiso]

So..... the UN should send a relief mission and a peacekeeping force to Somalia?

Never tried that before

[GZLives]

"Witnesses said Amisom fired at least 35 rockets into the capital's Bakara market area on Thursday after al-Shabab fighters there launched mortar shells at the aircraft of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Somali president, as he left the airport for a summit in Uganda"

Firing from civilian areas hoping to lure peacekeepers into firing back so they can kill lots of civilians ... hmmm this all sounds familiar.

"Al-Shabab wants to drag us into their war ... they shell us and then they also shell Bakara, then they tell people there it was Amison who killed civilians. We know their tactics."
   
"The US accuses al-Shabab, which wants to topple Ahmed's fragile UN-backed administration and impose its own strict verison of Islamic law across the country, of being al-Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of Africa state."

Goldstone ? Goldstone ?
Are you listening?

[StCuthbert]

UN Human Rights Council condemnation in 5...4...3......oh, wait, never mind.

[Horst]

Paging Judge Goldstone.....

[Paulo1]

WANTED: One old fashioned colonialist power to go in and defeat the Warlords/T­errorists/­Pirates and bring a modest amount of peace to the area

Applicants should read Kipling's "The White Mans Burden" and be prepared for howls of protests from people who believe Warlords and Pirates are somehow poor disadvantaged people.

[WilliamL]

Interesting.

[bismillah001]

"Interesting"?????

What universe am I in?

[TParrish]

Sometimes I despair the species.

[foxfury]

Reminder: its a religion of (drum roll) peace!

[WilliamL]

BOOM

[TParrish]

Actually, much of it IS. There are wingnuts in every religion. It just happens that their particular wingnuts have a soft spot in their hearts for the dark ages, and really, really want to be in charge so they can bring them back.

[winningticket]

What good is it when humans just want to make other humans cry?

[foxfury]

Unfortunately, I think you need to replace the word "cry" with "die."

[WilliamL]

BOOM