A district magistrate in Bossaso town, 1500 kilometres northeast of Mogadishu, the commercial capital of Puntland, a self-made semi-autonomous state, has sentenced two Islamist cut-throats to capital punishment.The men who served in the Islamist militia of Sheikh Mohamed Said Atam, a hardliner holy man fighting the Puntland State, were executed by a firing squad in Bossaso on Sunday.
Was captured
They were reportedly seized when Gal-gala, a settlement at the edge of Golis mountain range near Bossaso, was captured by Puntland forces on September 10. The death sentence on the men named as Ahmed Farah Darod alias Muhsin, 22, and Said Osman Said, 31, is the first of its kind against Islamists nabbed since the anti-Islamist war started last July.
On October 31, the Puntland president, Abdurahman Mohamed Farole, stated that he will severely deal with radical groups.