{"id":7382,"date":"2014-02-12T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=7382"},"modified":"2014-02-12T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:08:50","slug":"u-s-warns-of-terrorist-attack-plot-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7382","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Warns of Terrorist Attack Plot in Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7389 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images2.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images2.jpg 284w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images2-220x137.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a>VOA News has reported that the U.S. embassy in Uganda has warned of an impending terrorist attack in the country&#8217;s capital, Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>In a message released late Monday, the US embassy revealed that it had been informed &#8220;a group of attackers are possibly in place and ready to strike targets inside Kampala in February or March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that &#8220;the Ugandan National Museum is one of the potential targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been no comment from the Ugandan government.<\/p>\n<p>The statement cautioned the public to avoid crowded public places, such as museums.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2010, Somali militant group Al-Shabab carried out a bombing in a crowded place filled with football fans in Kampala, \u00a0killing more than 70 people.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Islamist Somali militia, believed to have ties to Al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for several attacks in the region, as retaliation for the these nations&#8217; support for to AMISOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA News has reported that the U.S. embassy in Uganda has warned of an impending terrorist attack in the country&#8217;s capital, Kampala. In a message released late Monday, the US embassy revealed that it had been informed &#8220;a group of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7382\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[1501],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}