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Mogadishu,
Somalia, November 28, 2009 — Agents with Somalia’s customs have seized
more than $1-million worth of fake US notes in Mogadishu’s Adan Adde
International airport, authorities told local reporters on last
Saturday, November 21, 2009.
During a press conference held at the airport, Somalia’s Treasury
Minister, Mr Abdulrahman Omar Osman said the fake money was to be
smuggled into Somaliland’s capital, Hargeysa, where it was to be used to
carry out terrorism attacks.
Somalia’s police spokesman, Mr Dhexe Abdillahi Hassan said Al Qaeda was
the prime suspect and decided to smuggle counterfeit notes after
international financial institutions starved the terrorist group of all
money supplies.
He said they will destroy the contraband money.
No one has been reportedly arrested and the authorities did not
disqualify where the money was originally printed.
Even though, Somaliland is relatively peaceful, terrorist groups in
Somalia carried out successful attacks in Hargeysa in October last year
killing 24 persons and wounding more than 30 others. Just two weeks ago,
Somaliland security forces thwarted a plot to attack a peace conference
in Hargeysa, organized by the Finnish Lutheran Church’s foreign aid
branch, Finn Church Aid.
Source: Somalilandpress, November 22, 2009
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