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'Rage against US' motivated Kampala bombing 'mastermind'
The suspected mastermind of the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala said Thursday he was driven by "rage against the Americans" as Ugandan authorities declared all suspects in the blasts had been arrested.
Issa Ahmed Ruyima said he was a member of Somalia's insurgent group al Shabab, which has claimed responsibility for the double suicide blasts that killed 76 people on the evening of the football World Cup final.
Ruyima, 33, identified as the ring-leader of the attack gang, was presented to the media with three other suspects by Ugandan authorities who said all those behind the blasts had been captured.
"My rage was against the Americans whom I deemed were responsible for all the sufferings of Muslims around the world," said Ruyima who he left Kampala the day before the blasts.
He sent another man, Idris Nsubuga, along with a suicide bomber to a bar. "He first specified Americans, where Americans hang out, then he generalized whites, where whites hang out," said Nsubuga, referring to the mastermind Ruyima. He wanted to punish the Ugandan government as well as the Americans for their involvement in Somalia."