The announcement came two days after Mozambican police said they had tossed in the clink
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three Ugandans, claiming they were senior figures in a radical Islamist organization behind attacks in the country's gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province.
Another three were already in jug, Uganda police front man Fred Enanga said.
"We've been working together with the Mozambique government and we understand they have arrested a number of suspects," Enanga said.
Through the foreign ministry, Kampala had expressed "an interest in six of them" who would be brought back to face charges at home, he said.
Uganda does not have an extradition treaty with Mozambique.
One of the suspects was Abdul Rahman Faisal, who said he had nothing to do with the Cabo Delgado attacks, but claimed he belonged to "Al-Shabaab
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the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...in Uganda" -- in an apparent reference to the Somali Islamist Death Eater group which has no known links to the ongoing insurgency in Mozambique.
But he claimed he had nothing to do with the Cabo Delgado attacks.
Enanga said Al-Shabaab did not have any cells in Uganda but explained that Faisal and several others were wanted by Ugandan police in connection with an holy warrior mosque in central Kampala that was raided by police in April 2018.
During the raid, police found weapons and more than 100 women being held against their will along with children who were being "recruited and radicalised into acts of extremism".
"Some people managed to escape the raid and some of them are among the suspects arrested in Mozambique," Enanga told AFP.
"Abdul Rahman was one of those suspects."
Separately, Hassan Kiberu, a local council official in Kampala, described Faisal as head of the Usafi mosque, a rundown collection of ramshackle buildings in the middle of the city.
Described as a "radicalisation centre", the mosque was home to "extremists", police told AFP.