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October 17, 2011

AP: Somali militants threaten suicide attacks in Kenya

by Abdi Guled and Katharine Houreld
The Associated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A spokesman for the Somali militant group al-Shabab is threatening Kenya with suicide attacks like those that killed 76 people in Uganda last year.

Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage told a news conference in Mogadishu on Monday that Kenya must pull its troops out of Somalia. Lines of Kenyan troops poured into Somalia over the weekend. Kenyan officials say the country has the right to defend itself from Somalia's most powerful militant group.

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