Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula addresses one press conference at his offices in the capital, Nairobi, 27 October 2010.
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NAIROBI/MOGADISCHU | Sunday, 6 November 2011 4: 31 EST are
NAIROBI/MOGADISCHU (Reuters) - Eritrea Kenya suspected that it al-Shabaab Islamist rebels in Somalia, are armed, can rejected, since a diplomatic row between the two countries intensified.
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula said on Friday that he had asked the Eritrean Ambassador and "concerns about the intelligence that we have and information available, that there is a possibility that flow of arms from his country to al-Shabaab."
He said that al Shabaab militants in southern of Somalia fighting Kenya, which the al-Qaeda Truppen ligada, had "a number of options," which he did not specify with the alleged supply of arms.
"The Government of Eritrea finds very regrettable the comments attributed to the Foreign Ministers of Kenya... about the fictional history of the Eritrean weapons to al-Shabaab in Somalia," Eritrea of Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement of 5 November.
Eritrea denied arming the militants and says that these allegations be stoked by regional rival to sully his reputation.
It described Kenya's implicit threat action as "unhappy" with an expected visit to Kenya own Foreign Minister.
Kenya provided three weeks of troops in Somalia ago, in order to smash the al-Shabaab militants, which makes it responsible for a wave of kidnappings in Kenya and frequent cross-border attacks.
Nairobi has warned of air strikes on a number of rebel bases in southern and central Somalia in response to what is said, it was reported that Eritrea shipments of arms to the militant enclave Baidoa flown.
An al-Shabaab Mujahideen of Supreme Commander the insurgents said believers on Sunday not to give up their main strongholds, would even if antenna subjected to bombing.
"Kenya of fighter jets will never take advantage of our cities, but they can injure or kill a few people," Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said in Almada, on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, after leading prayers the Muslim festival of Eid to mark.
Kenya has a careful eye on his lawless neighbour, long cast with weapons and 1991 embroiled in conflict since the fall of a dictator.
The region's largest economy is by the anarchy in Somalia, where then Islamist rebels entered a political vacuum first warlords in have, so worried that it quietly called consisting of has supported the birth of a semi-autonomous Somali province, "Jubaland", from the three Somali regions bordering Kenya.
The State of Jubaland, sometimes called Azania, is not clear. Somalia Government says that it supports the Jubaland initiative.
Kenya's military has denied that his entry was carefully planned for years to the annexation of Somali region, which could act as a buffer zone between the two countries.
Al-Shabaab thinks otherwise.
"Let not with Azania deceive." It said a Christian State, make sure "Aweys, whose Kämpfer are fighting to impose a hardline version of Islamic law to Somalia."
(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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