Al - Shabab militants Battlefields Move to Kenya

Somali militant group al - Shabab has threatened to carry out more attacks in Kenya ( photo : dock ) .

Al - Shabab militants Battlefields Move to Kenya

Somali militant group al - Shabab has promised to shift war to Kenya to launch attacks against the government and civilians there .

Somali militant group al - Shabab has promised to shift war to Kenya to deploy more fighters to launch attacks against the government and civilians there . Al - Shabab also called on Muslims in Kenya to engage in battle with them .

Al - Shabab on Monday ( 19/5 ) ambushed a military convoy in northeastern Kenya , near the Somali border , killing at least 10 soldiers .

Speaking on Thursday ( 22/5 ) in the town of Bardhere , Somalia , al - Shabab commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf said the attackers were young men from Kenya .

" We have trained the youth of Kenya ; we will deploy them to their country . The people that we muster on Monday and killed the soldiers you are the people who have treated you unfairly , and we will send more, " said Khalaf .

A UN report in 2011 said that al - Shabab has recruited approximately 500 young people of Kenya . Since then , Kenyan police have arrested dozens of suspects who are recruited and go back to Kenya .

Investigators say two recent attacks in Nairobi on passenger buses and busy local market launched by Kenyans .

On Wednesday , a judge hearing 18 -year -old Kenyan , Wargue Sar . The young man accused of planting a bomb on a passenger bus earlier this month .

Khalaf al - Shabab warned the government of Kenya to prepare for more attacks .

He added , " We told them , be prepared for the kidnapped , there will be more women , youth suicide attacker , and Muslims who fight . "

This week , Kenyan fighter jets attacked a fortress of al - Shabab and training places as part of the African Union operation against the group .

Kenyan troops entered Somalia in 2011 to fight al - Shabab . Since then , Kenya has faced a series of grenade attacks , bombs and guns .

The most severe , al - Shabab militants killed more than 60 people in an attack at a shopping center ' Westgate ' in Nairobi last year .

Last month , security officials in Kenya launched a crackdown to arrest terrorists , their sympathizers and illegal immigrants . Human rights groups have complained that the operation , which targeted the Somali immigrants in Eastleigh in Nairobi housing . VOA