Kampala Attacks Targeted the Innocent

Ray Walser / July 12, 2010

In a terrible final note to the first African World Cup games, two coordinated suicide bombings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala killed more than 70 Ugandans and foreigners on July 11 as they were watching the championship game of the World Cup at a restaurant and a rugby club.

The senseless destruction of human life remains a central tenet of Islamist extremists, including al-Qaeda’s Somalia-based terror arm Al-Shabab.

A spokesman for the terror group, Ali Mohamud Rage, said “Al-Shabab was behind the two bomb blasts in Uganda.”

On learning of the Kampala carnage, an al-Shabab spokesperson praised all those who seek salvation with a suicide vest. “This is the work of the mujahedin. We are happy with the guys who did that, God will reward them.” Al-Shabab has repeatedly said it considers soccer and sports in general “a satanic act.” (more…)