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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...said Tuesday it has killed a security bigshot in Bosaso, the commercial city 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...
state in northeastern Somalia.
According to a statement posted on pro-al-Shabaab media outlets, armed Death Eaters have shot and killed the officer identified as only Colonel Qasim.
Puntland has not yet commented on the reported murder of the security official.
Bosaso, the main port town on the Gulf of Aden in Somalia’s Puntland region has been hit by a string of attacks and targeted liquidations in the past, some claimed by pro-Islamic state faction.