...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...executed an overnight ambush attack in 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...
’s port city of Bosaso.
The authorities in the Gulf of Aden city confirmed the attack at a security checkpoint, where al-Shabaab engaged in a 30 minutes battle with Puntland forces.
After getting an immediate reinforcements, Puntland troops pushed back the attackers whose goal was to overrun the checkpoint which protects Bosaso security.
There were reports of casualties on both sides but details are sketchy as Puntland didn’t release any statement regarding the Thursday night raid by al-Shabaab.
Al-Shabaab has base in Galgala mountains outside Bosaso where it trains its fighters and orchestrates attacks on the port city, which serves as the financial nerve hub of the regional administration.
For over a decade, Puntland, a relatively calm regional state in northeastern Somalia has been facing daul threats from al-Shabaab and ISIS bases the Bari region’s hills.
The two holy warrior groups were under US military rader for years and faced dronezaps that killed top commanders.
Last month, US Navy SEAL killed an 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....
leader, Bilal al-Sudani, and 10 of his operatives in Puntland operation.
Al-Sudani was killed after US special forces raided a remote mountainous cave complex in Bari region, hoping to capture him but a resistance led to his death.