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Uganda releases photos of Kampala bombers
18 July, 2010 | CNN
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Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- Ugandan police Sunday released photo
reconstructions of two men they say were the suicide bombers behind
last week's attacks on World Cup fans that left 76 dead.
"Our intelligence so far confirms that last Sunday's bomb attacks were
suicide attacks," Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, Uganda's national police
chief, told reporters. The international police organization Interpol was
distributing the photo reconstructions in an attempt to identify the
attackers, Kayihura said.
Interpol and the FBI have helped confirm the attacks were suicide
bombings, he said. Investigators suspect that two severed heads found
parts attached are those of the bombers, he added.
The Kampala bombings struck an Ethiopian restaurant and a rugby
center where crowds of people were watching the World Cup final
match. Officials also have found an explosive-laden belt in a nightclub
trash can in a Kampala suburb, suggesting a third attack was planned
but not carried out.
The Somali Islamist insurgent movement Al-Shabaab has claimed
responsibility for the attacks, calling them retaliation for Ugandan
participation in an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Uganda is hosting an African Union summit this week, and Kayihura
said the Ugandan government has urged the organization for the
authority to hunt down Al-Shabaab members "in their bases which are
known to us."
The AU peacekeeping mission AMISOM has about 5,200 troops --
3,200 from Uganda, the rest from Burundi. The troops are there to
support the U.N.-backed transitional government in Somalia, which has
been without an effective central government since 1991.
Ugandan and Kenyan authorities have made more than 20 arrests since
the bombings, Kayihura said. He said two Ugandans arrested in Kenya
were members of the Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel group that
battled government troops in the country's west during the 1990s, and
had ties to Al-Shabaab.
One of those arrested in Kenya has been handed over to Ugandan
authorities, while the other was still held in Kenya, he said. He would not
disclose details, telling reporters that police are still gathering evidence
against them.
"This effort is part of the regional and continental help we are receiving
since the attack," he said.
Kayihura said several non-Ugandans, including Pakistani nationals, were
among those arrested. But he said none of those have been definitely
linked to the Kampala attacks, and most were taken into custody for
having "unclear" travel documents. Meanwhile, four Ethiopians picked
up by police after the bombing have been found "free of any criminality"
and released.
Courtesy
18 July, 2010 | CNN
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Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- Ugandan police Sunday released photo
reconstructions of two men they say were the suicide bombers behind
last week's attacks on World Cup fans that left 76 dead.
"Our intelligence so far confirms that last Sunday's bomb attacks were
suicide attacks," Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, Uganda's national police
chief, told reporters. The international police organization Interpol was
distributing the photo reconstructions in an attempt to identify the
attackers, Kayihura said.
Interpol and the FBI have helped confirm the attacks were suicide
bombings, he said. Investigators suspect that two severed heads found
parts attached are those of the bombers, he added.
The Kampala bombings struck an Ethiopian restaurant and a rugby
center where crowds of people were watching the World Cup final
match. Officials also have found an explosive-laden belt in a nightclub
trash can in a Kampala suburb, suggesting a third attack was planned
but not carried out.
The Somali Islamist insurgent movement Al-Shabaab has claimed
responsibility for the attacks, calling them retaliation for Ugandan
participation in an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Uganda is hosting an African Union summit this week, and Kayihura
said the Ugandan government has urged the organization for the
authority to hunt down Al-Shabaab members "in their bases which are
known to us."
The AU peacekeeping mission AMISOM has about 5,200 troops --
3,200 from Uganda, the rest from Burundi. The troops are there to
support the U.N.-backed transitional government in Somalia, which has
been without an effective central government since 1991.
Ugandan and Kenyan authorities have made more than 20 arrests since
the bombings, Kayihura said. He said two Ugandans arrested in Kenya
were members of the Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel group that
battled government troops in the country's west during the 1990s, and
had ties to Al-Shabaab.
One of those arrested in Kenya has been handed over to Ugandan
authorities, while the other was still held in Kenya, he said. He would not
disclose details, telling reporters that police are still gathering evidence
against them.
"This effort is part of the regional and continental help we are receiving
since the attack," he said.
Kayihura said several non-Ugandans, including Pakistani nationals, were
among those arrested. But he said none of those have been definitely
linked to the Kampala attacks, and most were taken into custody for
having "unclear" travel documents. Meanwhile, four Ethiopians picked
up by police after the bombing have been found "free of any criminality"
and released.
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