Salon.com News | Ethiopia: al-Qaida operating in Somalia: "Ethiopia's prime minister warned on Thursday of the danger posed by a ‘very active al-Qaida cell’ in Somalia's capital and said a stable government is the best way to eliminate the terrorist threat in the chaotic Horn of Africa country.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in an interview with The Associated Press days ahead of an election in which he is seeking a third consecutive term, said his government supported the Somali transitional government formed in neighboring Kenya last year and would do everything possible to help it take power and eliminate the terrorist threat.

‘Wherever there is distress, wherever there is acute poverty, social dislocation, the potential for a terrorist state exists,’ Meles said. ‘We have a very active terrorist cell in Mogadishu, which has been involved in terrorist activities in Kenya.’

Kenya has been hit twice in recent years by major terrorist attacks that killed hundreds. In 1998, the U.S. Embassy was destroyed by a car bomb, and another exploded outside a tourist hotel on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast in 2002."

(Via Salon.)