Bargaal
Coordinates: 11 ° 17 ' N , 51 ° 5' E
Bargaal (also spelled Bargal ) is a town in northeast Somalia with about 7,000 inhabitants.
It is remote on the coast in a mountainous area in the Bari region , which is part of the de facto autonomous Puntland . From the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Bargaal was the center of the dominion of the Majerteen Sultanates .
On June 1, 2007, a US warship fired on suspected al-Qaeda targets in Bargaal. Previously, on May 30, a dozen to 35 foreign fighters had arrived in the area with speedboats from southern Somalia and fought with local troops. A dozen people were killed in these military actions, according to the Puntland regional government, including at least six Islamists from Great Britain, the USA, Sweden, Pakistan and Yemen; five soldiers on the government side were injured and the Islamists were defeated.
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- Tages-Anzeiger Online: Somalia: US attack against Al-Qaida
- BBC News: US attacks Somali 'militant base'
- BBC News: 'Foreign fighters' in Somalia
- Yahoo! News: Report: US hits militants' Somali base
Individual evidence
- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2007)