Bintiland has the weakest security personnel in somalia, isis and several others go in and out of bintiland towns like public toilets.
Yeah, it' fantastic these terror groups have WHOLE mountains to hold up in. Just waiting for them, to come down from their mountainous hiding spots. And even when they do come down, it's usually in small groups, with the aim of conducting grenade attacks, car bombings, shootings and kidnapping.
They hardly ever conduct, and operation to take over a town. In the rare occasions that they do, such as the ISIS taking of Qandala (with local support) they only held the village, for just mire days, before they got a hell of a KARBASHING from PL forces. Then of course, like the pussies these terror groups truly are, they ran straight up to the mountains to hide in. Here's a clip of the Puntland Operation to take back Qandala.
And here, the PL security services, prevented a potentially devastating attack, by capturing these terrorist before they were able to carry out their evil acts.