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Puntland Forces Launch A Security Operation In Bosaso City |
2018-03-28 |
[RADIOSHABELLE] The security forces of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region 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... have carried out a massive operation in parts of the port city of Bosaso on Monday night. The sweep came following series of insecurity acts and liquidations targeting security force members and civil servants in the town over the past few weeks Puntland officials said the state troop’s agents had conducted a house-to-house operation in parts of the restive Bosaso where they detained several suspects in the night-long swoop. Those placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on the Sunday night crackdown are being interrogated by the security forces. The authorities promised to release suspects found not guilty. On Monday, suspected Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... assailants have shot and killed a top Puntland Intelligence officer whose name has been identified only as Shine, according to the local authorities. |
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