Al Shabaab denies Ugandan officials foiled planned attack
Al Shabaab militant group has denied that Ugandan security forces have foiled planned attack by the militant members.
In a statement the group strongly denied the claims by US and Uganda officials on planned attacks in Ugandan soil.
“Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen strongly deny the purported claim by the … United States and their subordinate Ugandan officials that they’ve foiled an attack that was supposedly being planned in Uganda by the Mujahideen,” sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, the spokesman of al Shabaab, said in a statement released on Monday.
Ugandan Information Minister Rose Namayanja said on Saturday that security agencies seized an extraordinary amount of explosives from a suspected al Shabaab cell that was planning an attack. Namayanja said the government believed the Kampala cell had links to al Shabaab, without giving further details.
On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Uganda asked its citizens to seek safety, saying that local authorities had uncovered a “terrorist cell” run by al Shabaab, which the United States believed was preparing for an attack.
Kenya has tightened its security to preempt any Al Shabaab attack for the death of its leader.
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