Somaliland police arrest four suspected terrorists

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Gabiley police on Sunday afternoon arrested four suspects believed to have links with a terrorist network in Somalia.

 

Two men and two women traveling in a 4×4 vehicle on their way to the capital after crossing the border from Ethiopia via Wajale were taken into custody by the police in the farming town of Gabiley.

 

The police said the four suspects are native of Somalia and had left Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, and were on their way to Hargeisa to carry out attacks.

 

According to a source close to the police, the police recovered bomb making materials in one of the lady’s luggage bags.

 

The incident comes days after a deadly-raid in a house in Somaliland’s second-largest city of Burao that left a senior policeman dead and two more wounded. The police arrested eleven terror suspects including four women and recovered materials for suicide attacks. The suspects have been taken to Mandeera prison and await for their trials (see Somaliland cops arrest ‘bombers’).

 

Somaliland suspects Somalia’s terrorist network Al-shabab and other groups want to destabilise the country ahead of the presidential elections that is scheduled for June 26.

 

Meanwhile, the counter-terror intelligence agency, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is under scrutiny for failing to foresee the terrorist threats and there are reports the head of the department, Mr Abdi Aideed is currently in Addis Ababa for a personal trip.

 

More Somalilanders are beginning to question the intelligence gathering of the CID and feel they are not doing enough and should be replaced. While others have expressed angered towards the head of the intelligence and can not understand how he could be on a holiday during a crucial time in the country.

 

Photo: Gabiley during political campaigns (GaibleyNews)

 

Somalilandpress | Monday, June 14, 2010

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Teroristoow xaal qaado

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

oo teroristka maxa xaal loo siinaya. terorista xabsi ba la siiyaa iyo xahdig dheer.

[Jacaylbaro]

"Suspected Terrorists" ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,