Somalia: Puntland Threatens to Either Kill Or Deport the New

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Somalia: Puntland Threatens to Either Kill Or Deport the New Islamic Courts Founders


Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

November 3, 2006
Posted to the web November 3, 2006

Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu

Semi-autonomous regional government of Puntland has threatened it would either incarcerate, kill or deport the religious leaders who formed an Islamic Court in north Galka'ayo under Puntland control.

Mohomood Muse, the commander of the military forces in Puntland, has told Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu that the administration would take measures against the religious persons who hail from the region if they did not give up their dreams of bolstering and enforcing the newly formed Islamic Court in north Galka'ayo.


"the religious men who formed an Islamic Court in Puntland administered environs are being persuaded to abandon the illegal activities they are involved in by their sub-clan men and if that fails, we will seize them and either deport them or kill them", Muse said.


The news comes as the fear of an imminent war between Ethiopia and Somalia's powerful Islamists was running high following the collapse of Khartoum peace negotiations.

Muse said Puntland administrators find Mogadishu based Islamic Courts as integrated tribes, which desperately want to capture Puntland lands.

He warned the new Islamists in Puntland, intending to enforce the Islamic Court in the region to halt their actions or will face horrible consequences.