Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage addresses a news conference in Somalia's capital Mogadishu May 7, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's militant Islamist group al Shabaab pledged on Tuesday to greet British troops "with fire" when they arrive to provide support to a peacekeeping force in the conflict-ravaged country.
Last week Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to deploy up to 70 troops and experts to provide logistical, medical and engineering support to the African Union-led peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is struggling to emerge from two decades of chaos and is also battling the Islamist insurgency of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab.
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