- [SW Country](Galkayo - PL ) PRESS RELEASE DGPL : Posted on [12 Oct 2001]
Galkayo, September 9,2001
PRESS RELEASE
Information reaching this Office from
Port City of Bosaso, Puntland State, says that since the launching of USA led offensive
against terrorism in Afghanistan, AL ITIHAD movement has stepped up recruitment and
training of the unemployed youth in Bari and Sanaag regions of Puntland State of
Somalia.
According to this report, military training camps had been set up in undeveloped areas
not far from towns of Bosaso and Eelayo and Las Korey of Sanaag region.
It is believed that AL Itihad organization of Mogadishu has been sending newly
conscripted youth to Bosaso in an intention to assist in its plans to overthrow the
Administration of Puntland State of Somalia after convening a non-participatory and
openly provocative congress in Garowe, Puntland State.
Earlier, one hundred nineteen young men, whom were transported secretly from Mogadishu
had been captured in a police checkpoint in Mudugh (Galkayo).

They were on their way to Bosaso. Galkayo
police has learned through interrogation that at least four hundred youth from
Mogadishu had entered Bosaso in a covert operation for either training purpose
or they were already trained men on their way to give support to Usama Bin Laden in
accordance with Al Itihads recent statement in Mogadishu following September 11
terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

The Prime Minister of the Arta
Faction (TNG) had announced that his administration was 'behind the Garowe Conference' to
destabilize the Administration of Puntland State, in a recent interview picked
up in voice and written by most Somali websites.
Ismail H. Warsame
Chief of Cabinet - DGPL
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