I think Puntland really needs a strong security strategy regarding shabab in galgala mountain. The security challenges we are facing are not like mogadishu, they use a different tactic(insurgency). The tactics employed in Puntland are conventional warfare, they actually hit and run attack our military using the mountain as a place to return to regroup.
I think we need to set up checkpoints going into Galgala on all sides. Inspect all vehicles for weaponry, explosive devices, and make sure no dangerous weapons goes in and out of that place. Sooner or later they will run out of weapons and won't be able to form attacks. We should have PIS agents in plain clothing stationed in hawalas to monitor suspicious money transfers, in the market place especially for items used for IED, in mosques, schools, tea shops. We need eyes in each each district of bosaso where they tell us of any new people entering the town and immediately report to security service.
We need to hold clan elders, religious leaders accountible for not reporting any suspicious behaviors. Extremism doesn't happen over night, it's a process. We should use identifiers to immediately recognize when someone is being radicalised. For example if they start seeing people who have isolated themselves from their community such as associating with people like they used too, playing sports, going to the tea shop, our plain clothed PIS should look for those identifiers and report them so they can be closely monitored, possibly lead the agents to even a bigger network that they weren't aware of such as 'religious instructor', finance source, equipment supply source, different members in the network, etc.
I honestly think Puntland can easily defeat these people but we need a strategy. Please contribute your strategy to defeat these terrorists.
My strategy basically focuses on checkpoint in the mountains to inspect movement of goods and supplies, this will basically starve them out of from getting ammunition, guns, etc. They will then revert to the mogadishu style attack by doing an insurgency and laying IED and Explosive devices. To counter this I believe we need 'eyes' in the community that look for key markers of people radicalising, so they can be quickly monitored. Then we need eyes in major sectors where they source their supplies, for example IED need batteries, then put an agent in the market where batteries are sold to identify suspicious purchases battery, have an agent in the hawalas to identify suspicious transactions. Cut their human supply source by having agents in each district of Bosaso to watch for people who are behaving suspiciously, cut away from family/friends/ only attends mosque not other social activities.
When an attack does happen, study those attacks and look for patterns that we missed previously and add that to our strategy in the future. I really want to know what the investigation strategy is when something occurs.
My strategy is to basically attack them on all corners using a preventive style approach, get them before they actually do harm. Eventually they will see that their attack success rate is lowering. they cause it continously keeps getting foiled and prevented, some may slip through but as your strategy evolves and new tactics are developed plus experience grows, you can see how it will start to become a once every 5 year explosion. And we just keep working them over and over and making it difficult for them to carry out their plans because our plans are far superior.
I think we need to set up checkpoints going into Galgala on all sides. Inspect all vehicles for weaponry, explosive devices, and make sure no dangerous weapons goes in and out of that place. Sooner or later they will run out of weapons and won't be able to form attacks. We should have PIS agents in plain clothing stationed in hawalas to monitor suspicious money transfers, in the market place especially for items used for IED, in mosques, schools, tea shops. We need eyes in each each district of bosaso where they tell us of any new people entering the town and immediately report to security service.
We need to hold clan elders, religious leaders accountible for not reporting any suspicious behaviors. Extremism doesn't happen over night, it's a process. We should use identifiers to immediately recognize when someone is being radicalised. For example if they start seeing people who have isolated themselves from their community such as associating with people like they used too, playing sports, going to the tea shop, our plain clothed PIS should look for those identifiers and report them so they can be closely monitored, possibly lead the agents to even a bigger network that they weren't aware of such as 'religious instructor', finance source, equipment supply source, different members in the network, etc.
I honestly think Puntland can easily defeat these people but we need a strategy. Please contribute your strategy to defeat these terrorists.
My strategy basically focuses on checkpoint in the mountains to inspect movement of goods and supplies, this will basically starve them out of from getting ammunition, guns, etc. They will then revert to the mogadishu style attack by doing an insurgency and laying IED and Explosive devices. To counter this I believe we need 'eyes' in the community that look for key markers of people radicalising, so they can be quickly monitored. Then we need eyes in major sectors where they source their supplies, for example IED need batteries, then put an agent in the market where batteries are sold to identify suspicious purchases battery, have an agent in the hawalas to identify suspicious transactions. Cut their human supply source by having agents in each district of Bosaso to watch for people who are behaving suspiciously, cut away from family/friends/ only attends mosque not other social activities.
When an attack does happen, study those attacks and look for patterns that we missed previously and add that to our strategy in the future. I really want to know what the investigation strategy is when something occurs.
My strategy is to basically attack them on all corners using a preventive style approach, get them before they actually do harm. Eventually they will see that their attack success rate is lowering. they cause it continously keeps getting foiled and prevented, some may slip through but as your strategy evolves and new tactics are developed plus experience grows, you can see how it will start to become a once every 5 year explosion. And we just keep working them over and over and making it difficult for them to carry out their plans because our plans are far superior.
