Somali intelligence believes that foreign forces are involved in planning the attack in Mogadishu

Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency announced Monday that a "foreign state" is behind a terrorist attack in the country's capital Mogadishu, which killed more than 80 people.

 "We provided the country's leadership with a preliminary report that the massacre in Mogadishu on December 28th was planned by a foreign state," a report on the intelligence service on Twitter said.  However, the agency did not give the name of the country in respect of which there were suspicions.  Somali intelligence also noted that "it will cooperate with a number of special services at the international level in order to complete the ongoing investigation."

 On Saturday, a suicide bomber blew up a truck full of explosives at a checkpoint in southwestern Mogadishu.  On the same day, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed accused Al-Shabab of involvement in the attack.  According to the government, as a result of the attack 81 people were killed, at least 25 more were reported missing.