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Africa Horn
Puntland soldiers killed in bomb attack in Galgala
2017-04-24
[SHABELLENEWS] A Somali police official says a roadside kaboom in a remote town in Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
has killed eight soldiers and injured three others.

Ahmed Mohammed tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Sunday’s blast targeted a military convoy in Galgala. Security forces have been battling Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked fighters in the region.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but the IS-linked bandidos turbans have carried out such attacks in the past.

Fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are a relatively new and growing threat in Somalia, where the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
murderous Moslem group has been entrenched for years.
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