...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...
Police officer was killed on Wednesday in a boom-mobile kaboom occurred in Galkayo town located in Somalia’s central conflict-torn Mudug region.
Ali Ibrahim Ali, who was in charge of the city’s Police died after an bomb hidden in his car went
kaboom!while driving to his workplace in the early morning.
Al-Shabaab
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the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...has grabbed credit for the car kaboom, according to a statement posted on its affiliated media outlets.