By: Yusuf M Hasan
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – A large number of suspected terrorists are currently guests of the state at the Hargeisa central police station.
The tens of suspects terrorists were transferred from Las Anod police station by Sool regional administration thus effect proper investigations by the CID headquarters with a view to arraigning them in court if investigators are satisfied of the suspect’s connection to terrorism or intent to commit terror acts not only in Somaliland but other neighbouring countries as well.
Also in the terror suspects mix is a son to Eng. Feisal Ali Warabe the leader of the opposition party
of UCID, arrested in Las Anod together with a female companion on Saturday night.
It is not yet clear under what circumstances the Las Anod police arrested The Warabe son and the lady both of whom are reported to have been en-route to Hargeisa from Finland where both reside.
The other ten suspects all of them passengers of 4X4 land cruiser vehicle who were arrested at a go, will have a rough time proving their innocence if initial reports from Las Anod police is anything to go by.
Meanwhile Las Anod police have arrested two people in connection to the grisly murder of a religious leader in Garowe, the capital of the Somalia administrative region of Puntland.
According to the Sool regional deputy police commander Abdilahi Saeed Guleid, one of the two currently in custody at the Las Anod Central police station is known to have been responsible for the murder of a Puntland religious leader, the late Sheikh Abdiqadir Nuur Farah, while his companion is under investigation.
Commander Guleid says that security personnel in Sool region are in high alert for terrorist aligned to Al-shabaab intent on seeking shelter in Somaliland through Las Anod town following their continued ejection from bases in Somalia by AMISOM troops.
