Third Bomb Vest Found - Suspects Held In Uganda
Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants had planned a third bombing during the World Cup final, officials said Tuesday. Four foreign suspects were arrested in connection with the find.
The vest found in a suburb of Kampala on Monday — with a detonator, wires and ball bearings in a bag like a laptop computer bag — is consistent with what was seen at the two sites of Sunday’s blasts, said the inspector general of police, Kale Kaihura.
… Al-Shabab, Somalia’s most dangerous militant group, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The ultraconservative Islamists are calling for Uganda to withdraw their African Union peacekeeping forces from Somalia. The group has long threatened to attack outside Somalia’s borders, but Sunday’s bombings are the first time it has done so.
“I’m startled that they could actually launch an attack outside Somalia,” said Robert Rotberg, a Harvard professor who tracks the group and Somalia more generally. “I’m surprised they have done something like this, and it may show just how desperate Shabab has become.”