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Africa Horn
Puntland prepares to rout militants out of Galgala mountains
2012-12-14
[Shabelle] The 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...
in north-east Somalia is planning to launch military raids against a turban hid-out in the rugged mountains of Galgala, according to Colonel Jama Said Warsame, the regional army commander in north east Somalia who spoke to Shabelle media network.

In an execlusive interview with Shabelle, Col. Warsame told that the authorities in Puntland has prepared special forces who will conduct security operations to rout the turban fighters out of Galgala in particular and boost security in Puntland in general.

Galgala is a hide-out for snuffies led by a man called Mohamed Said Atam and they have forged unity with the other cut-thoat group of Al-Shabaab
... the successor to the Islamic Courts...
which is based in parts of southSomalia.
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