...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...
commercial city of Bossaso on Wednesday afternoon.
A Puntland police officer told state-run Radio Mogadishu that the bomber struck in front of a restaurant in Bosasso
...Puntland's major (maybe only) port, population about 250,000, most of them shady characters who hang around waterfront dives and carry knives and brass knuckles...
’s Al Macruuf shopping center.
The motive of the latest attack in Puntland State has not been established.
Fun, profit, and instilling terror in the hearts of the insufficiently pious?
Locals said security forces have launched a major manhunt for the perpetrators of the latest explosion in Bossaso town which has been beset by a series of landmine and suicide kabooms including liquidations in the recent past.No group has grabbed credit for the blast but al-Qaeda allied terror group, al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban...Arabic for
students...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
s (ISIS) have staged such attacks in the past in Bossaso and elsewhere in Puntland State.
The so-called ISIS wing in Somalia has its main base in the Puntland state and has occasionally clashed with Puntland forces and al-Shabaab.