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| Al-Shabab blamed for Kenya bus blast |
| 2010-12-24 |
| [Iran Press TV] Kenyan authorities have linked Somalia's al-Shabaab group to a grenade kaboom inside a Uganda-bound bus in central Nairobi that claimed three lives. "We have strong reasons to believe there is a link between the man behind the deadly kaboom and the beturbanned goon al-Shabaab group. The suspect has been identified as Albert John Olando Mulando," Kenya's police commissioner Mathew Iteere told Press TV on Thursday. He added that the 35-year-old Tanzanian suspect was also among the victims of the terror attack. The grenade attack also injured at least 30 people in Nairobi's central business district on Monday. Most of the injured were Ugandans who were heading home for Christmas holidays. In June, al-Shabaab grabbed credit for twin bomb attacks that rocked the Ugandan capital of Kampala. At least 74 people were killed when the blasts took place at an Ethiopian restaurant south of the capital and another at a rugby sports club in the east of Kampala. The victims were watching the FIFA World Cup final. The kabooms came two days after an al-Shabaab commander called for forces of Evil to attack sites in Uganda and Burundi. The two African nations contribute troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in violence-plagued Somalia. |
| Posted by:Fred |