Quoted in Jalal al-Sharaabi, Khaled Mahmoud, and Courtney C. Radsch, “Somali Leaders Accuse Islamists of Piracy,” Al Arabiya News Channel, December 2, 2008, http://www.alarabiya.net.2. Abdirahman Farole, speech before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, June 25, 2009, author’s copy.3. “Anti-Piracy Campaign Begins Today in Puntland,” Garowe Online, April 24, 2009, http://www.garoweonline.com.4. Ibid.5. Puntland also employs an extensive system of religious, or sharia, law courts, which deal mostly with matters of family law.6. Quoted in “Puntland Has Sacrificed for Its Peace, Says Pres. Farole,” Garowe Online, November 17, 2010, http://www.garoweonline.com/.7. UN Monitoring Group on Somalia, Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia pursuant to Security Council resolution 1853 (2008), S/2010/91, March 10, 2010, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/751/mongroup.shtml, 39.8. According to the terms of the arrangement, Range Resources was granted exploration rights for $25 million to be paid in monthly instalments of $200,000.9.
