Confirmation from the aptly named Sheikh Rage, in an update on this story. "Somali militants 'behind' Kampala World Cup blasts," from BBC News, July 12:
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it was behind twin blasts which hit the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday, killing 74 people.
In a statement in Mogadishu, spokesman for the group Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage threatened more attacks.
Police said the bombings targeted football fans watching the World Cup final.
A Ugandan official said a Somali's head was found at the scene of one blast, and he may have been a suicide bomber.
Ugandan peacekeepers are in Somalia, and al-Shabab has previously threatened Kampala.
"Al-Shabab was behind the two bomb blasts in Uganda," Ali Mohamud Rage said.
"We thank the mujahideen that carried out the attack. We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi, if they do not take out their Amisom [African Union Mission in Somalia] troops from Somalia, blasts will continue and it will happen in Bujumbura [the Burundi capital] too."
The explosions, which also injured about 70 people, ripped through a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant as football fans watched the last few minutes of the World Cup final.
Now Muslims and Arabs have killed black Africans in Ugana, Kenya, Tanzania, the Sudan, Nigeria. They have enslaved black Africans in recent years, right now, in Sudan and Mauritania, and thee are those who claim that slavery is still practiced, if only informally, in several of the Arab countries of North Africa, with black Africans as the enslaved.
Meanwhile, in north and central Nigeria, ever since the Christians were put down in their attempt to gain their independence in 1969--- an attempt that was suppressed by the Muslims of the north, with help from Egyptian pilots flying Egyptian Migs who strafed Igbo villages -- the continued spread of Shari'a, and the large-scale killings of Christians -- a few months ago Muslims swooped down and killed women and children in a village at night (perhaps you've already forgotten -- so many have), and the Shari's steadily is applied, with full force, in states that formerly were less fanatically Muslim. And Saudi money, paying for mosques and imams and madrasas, has transformed the practice of Islam in West Africa, as a friend of mine, who returns to Niger at intervals, keeps telling me with horror.
And in the Sudan, the Muslims of the north have made a farce of the promise to hold elections, and then a referendum on indepedendence.
For almost six years I have suggested at this site that a few thousand American troops could seize control of the entier southern Sudan and Darfur, and hold them until such time as a true referndum, free and fair, without the northern Muslims buying up local tribal leaders or setting off the locals against one another, could be undertaken and that this would have an electrifying effect on black African Christians, and give them reason not to despair but to hope.
And it would have an effect, too, on the world's Muslims, for they would be unable to claim -- no matter how the Arab League would scream -- that they have some kind of inalienable right to keep black Africans enslaved, or to keep stealing their oil (as in the Sudan), or diverting all thew oil revenues from Christian areas, where the oil is to be found (as in Nigeria) to Muslims, as in Nigeria. And fresh with the fury over the attacks in Uganda, it would be hard for anyone at the U.N., even the malevolent members of the one remaining lobby -- the Muslim lobby -- to argue that the Arabs have this right. And when the tale of the Arab slave trade becomes widely disseminated, and the news of the Arabs enslaving blacks still, this would be a help to halt the spread of Islam in Black Africa, but to help do damage to the carefully-targetted campaigns of Da'wa that go on, among black prisoners especially, in Great Britain and the United States, and even in France. The way that the Muslim Arabs, themselves Arab supremacists, cynically enroll in their Jihad, as cannon fodder, black converts, may also be exposed. So within the West, and in Africa itself, such a move would make geopolitical as well as moral sense.
Finally, as the Americans leave Iraq, that withdrawal -- which ought to have occurred starting in early 2004 -- will be painted by Muslim propagandists as a victory for Islam. Triumphalists will be heartened, and others will join the violent Jihad if they think that "the Infidels are on the run." They are unimpressed by this campaign by the Obama Administration, of the most absurd among its policymakers -- see John Brennan, see Dennis McDonouogh -- of Outreach to Muslims, of aiding and abetting the most absurd aspects of Muslim Self-Esteem.
The seizing of the southern Sudaan would make clear that the American withdrawal from Iraq and, I hope, Afghanistan, is not a sign of defeat or of appeasement, but a sign of a much more intelligent, cunning, and ruthless policy to weaken, to divide, to demoralize, the Camp of Islam.
And such an act will do much, too, to scare the regime in Teheran. And we want it to be scared. It isn't scared nearly enough.
Now is a good time. Or if not now, very soon. As American businessmen like to write, ASAP.
Hugh mentions: "... a few months ago Muslims swooped down and killed women and children in a village at night..."
Christian women and children as I recall.....they also waited for Christians to go to Church....then they attacked the Church...several churches, in fact....and mowed down the Christians that tried to flee....and then they torched the Churches and those inside who chose not to flee....
As I recall, the invading Muslim force was quite sizeable...a couple of thousand invading Muslims..with blood in their eyes and evil in their hearts...ready to go out and prove to all that Islam is a Religion of Peace....
Killing Christians is just one item on their "to do list"...
BTW...where is the outrage?....
Al-Shabaab are True Muslims following the orders of Muhammad, the Lowest of the Low. There is one way and one way only to deal with this garbage...FORCE.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/06/deserve-victory.html
"BTW...where is the outrage?..."
You can't be outraged. That would mean you'd have to blame Muslims and Islam and that's not allowed in these PC MC times.
Insane, isn't it? The West has gone absolutely bonkers.