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five Paks suspected of orc links, the police said on Tuesday, two weeks before the second anniversary of a bombing attack in Kampala for which Somali Islamist rebel group al Shaabab grabbed credit.
Officials say the country is vulnerable to further attacks from al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
who have vowed to keep striking until a Ugandan army contingent, leading an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
-mandated force protecting Somalia's government, withdraws.
The area where the five men were locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
was formerly a base for now-dormant Islamist rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF-NALU), which officials say has links to al-Shabaab.
Chaos in Somalia has allowed faceless myrmidons to thrive and launch deadly attacks in the region.
Deputy police spokesperson Judith Nabakoba told Rooters the men were locked away
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in the western district of Ntoroko near the Rwenzori mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday.
"We got suspicious because these five Paks were coming from Congoand entering Uganda through an ungazetted border point," Nabakoba said.
She said they were with a Congolese man who was not carrying proper identification documents, and that they had been taken to Kampala for further investigation.
Al-Shabaab, which is closely linked to al Qaeda, grabbed credit for the July 2010 bombing in which 79 people were killed while watching the final of the football world cup.
Although ADF-NALU has long been inactive, officials say they are still a credible security threat from their bases in eastern DRC, where they fled after being defeated and ejected from western Ugandain the late 1990s.
The group, formed in 1996, wants to establish an Islamic state inUgandaand the Ugandan army says ADF's recruits are predominantly young Moslems.