Intelligence briefings from Somalia indicate that Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab fighters are planning to bomb East African countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya.
Security sources in Uganda tell us that the Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab rebels plan to use East African countries through the links they have with East African rebel groups like interahamwe, LRA and ADF. Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab want to bomb all East African states for their refusal to urge Burundi and Uganda to pull out their troops from Somalia. Uganda and Burundi took the their troops to Somalia on a peace keeping mission.
Following this development the East African security chiefs met in Kampala yesterday to design measures of how they will tame the security threats from Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab.
They included the Chief of Defence Forces in Uganda, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Uganda Army spokesman Col. Felix Kulayigye, Col. Cyrus Oguna (Kenya military intelligence), Col Martin Mwankanye (Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces), and Brig Gen. Ildephonse Habarurema (Burundi National Defence Force) among others.
The military chiefs agreed to constantly keep watch for any element that may want to destabilize the East African Community states.
At the meeting the east African security chiefs agreed to carry out joint operations in case there is threat or an attack on any member states.
