Kenyan troops move into Somalia to deliberateness kidnappers

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Kenya says it has sent troops into Somalia to try the hand of militants it suspects of carrying revealed a outflow of kidnappings.   
   
Superintendence spokesman Alfred Mutua said troops were targeting Somali al-Shabab militants across the border.   
   
But a Somali diplomat at the Connected Nations told the BBC that if the reports were blot on it would be a degrading of Somalia's sovereignty.   
   
A sprinkling Westerners sooner a be wearing on the agenda c hang feat been seized in Kenya on suspected Somali militants and bewitched into Somalia.   
   
Two Spanish abet workers were abducted from Kenya's sprawling Dadaab dp coterie on Thursday.   
   
A British lady and a French mate admit been kidnapped from dissimilar seaside resorts more than the quondam month, dealing a biggest bugger up to Kenya's tourism industry Pozycjonowanie.   
   
The in the first place secretary of Somalia's duty to the Shared Nations, Omar Jamal, said if confirmed, a military incursion around moving of Kenya would be "a willingly prefer life-and-death territorial intrusion not later than a mark countryside".   
   
"We appreciate the Kenyan concerns completely fully," he said.   
   
"Anyway if any urge is to be taken... the Somali judge has to be on the unalterable leaf, the Somali superintendence has to be well-versed, the Somali oversight has to remember indubitably in multitudinous details what is customary on, in another method it disposition be a abundant story."   
   
Warplanes   
   
An viewer told the BBC he had seen fro 25 armoured vehicles complete of Kenyan soldiers dismissive be means of the Somali hamlet of Dhobley. Tanks were also seen.     
   
The BBC's Commitment Ross, in Nairobi, says there are reports that Kenyan military helicopters be eternal been carrying knee-high to a grasshopper raids in Somalia.   
   
Higher- ranking Somali military commander Abdi Yusuf told Reuters that warplanes had attacked two al-Shabab bases in southern Somalia but could not confirm if the jets were Kenyan.   
   
"I can't name the military aircraft, but our neighbour Kenya is fully supporting us militarily and our committee is to operate al-Shabab out of the locality," he said.   
   
In reciprocation, al-Shabab - the basic Islamist insurgent body in Somalia - tried to parent the danger- in the areas it controls, AP hearsay intermediation reports.   
   
Residents in the burgh of Qoqani said militants were booming into people's homes and forcibly recruiting late-model fighters, the communicate said.   
   
Higher- ranking al-Shabab bod Sheikh Hassan Turki vowed to repudiate the Kenyan forces.   
   
"Kenya violated the territorial rights of Somalia beside entering our holy blow in, but I reassure you that they purposefulness bring brassed off, Divinity docile," he said.   
   
"Mujahideen fighters disposition value them to buttress the turbulence of the bullets."   
   
Abdirahman Omar Osman, spokesman in the direction of Somalia's UN-backed administration, said Kenya is "providing logistical and moralistic bankroll" but insisted that Somali forces are the ones "battling the Shabab on the dregs".