Garowe (PP Information Desk) — As Puntland State’s counterterrorism operations in opposition to Daesh (ISIS) enter their fourth month, a number of international locations have approached the authorities of Puntland State to share the intelligence cache captured through the operations.
In hideouts deserted by Daesh terrorists, Puntland Defence Forces seized greater than 300 passports, 600 identification paperwork and foreign exchange belonging to international terrorists. A considerable variety of these paperwork had been issued in Western international locations.
It’s unclear whether or not Daesh terrorists stole these paperwork or whether or not they belonged to Daesh members.
President Mentioned Abdullahi Deni of Puntland State has been urged by safety specialists to place in place protocols for dealing with these paperwork and different intelligence that is likely to be of curiosity to Western international locations.
A number of Western intelligence businesses are placing effort into getting access to these paperwork to find out the extent of doable homegrown terrorist threats. “The Puntland State authorities ought to resist the temptation to maintain the general public and Puntland stakeholders at nighttime about the way it handles key intelligence data associated to Daesh” a member of the Kaah occasion advised Puntland Publish.
“It might be vastly embarrassing for any main nation that issued passports to Daesh terrorists who had been planning to deploy greater than ten thousand terrorists underneath the guise of refugees or guests to the Calmiskaad mountain vary in Somalia” a counterterrorism skilled mentioned. There’s concern, in the USA, that the Trump administration may weaponise any data associated to Daesh terrorists holding American passports, notably if the passports weren’t reported as misplaced or if the passport holders weren’t underneath surveillance by the FBI earlier than travelling to Somalia.
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