Somalia

Sheikh Mohamed Said Atom, a top Shabaab leader in Puntland, vowed to wage jihad in the semi-autonomous region. “We shall never stop fighting Puntland,’ Atom said in a press conference in Galkayo. “We are part and parcel of al Shabaab, we are brothers united by Islamic sharia.”

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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