Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said it had shot down a Kenyan military plane on Thursday in southern Somalia, after Kenyan newspapers had reported that it crashed due to technical problems after a combat mission. "We hit the Kenyan jet and downed it. It was bombing Bulaguduud town today," Al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said. "We hit it using a missile." The pilot was "burnt inside", he said. KDF spokesman Colonel David Obonyo said in a statement earlier, as reported by the Daily Nation newspaper on its website, "KDF aircraft while returning from a combat mission in Jamaame, (Southern Somalia), developed technical problems and crashed in the general area of Kismayu," It said he did not say if there were any casualties. The report follows two attacks in the past two weeks by al Shabaab militants on Kenya's northern border region in which more than 60 non-Muslim Kenyan civilians were killed. *This story was edited by Ahram Online. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/117201.aspx