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Independent. Abdi Hasan Awale or Abdi Qeybdiid ( Somali: Cabdi Xasan Cawaale (Qeybdiid), Arabic: عبدي حسن عوالي قيبديد; born 1948) is a Somali politician. Qeybdiid was a high ranking member of the Somali National Alliance during the 1990s, and a major figure in the CIA backed Somali Warlord Alliance during the early 2000s.
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The leadership of the alliance consisted Botan Ise Alin, Mohammed Dheere, Mohamed Qanyare, Musa Sudi Yalahow, Nuur Daqle, Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid, Omar Muhamoud Finnish and others. [citation needed] Some of them were ministers within the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Oct 17, 2005 · A man identified as Abdi Hassan Awale, who once served as Somalia’s interior minister, was taken into custody after Somalis living in Sweden recognized him and reported him to police, said...
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Mogadishu battle sites on 3–4 October 1993. On the morning of 3 October 1993, a locally recruited intelligence asset reported to the CIA that two of Aidid's principal advisors in the SNA, Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale, would be meeting near the Olympic Hotel ( 2°03′04.1″N 45°19′28.9″E ).
- 3–4 October 1993
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- Arrest in Sweden
Abdi Hasan Awale or Abdi Qeybdiid (Somali language: Cabdi Xasan Cawaale (Qeybdiid) , Arabic language: عبدي حسن عوالي قيبديد) was born in 1948 in Galkacyo, Somalia. He was elected on August 14, 2012 as the new president of Galmudug state, a semi-atonomous region in Somalia. In December 2006, he led an engagement on behalf of the Transitional Federa...
Qeybdiid rose to prominence as Mohammed Farrah Aidid's interior minister in its clashes with UN forces during the so-called "nation-building" phase of UNOSOM II in 1993. Like Aidid, he is a member of the Sacad sub-clan of the Habar Gedir clan.[citation needed]
In 1993, an assault force of Delta Force commandos backed up by nearly 140 United States Army Rangers and four US Army Special Forces operators under the command of Gen. William F. Garrison and Col. Lee Van Arsdale captured Qeybdiid together with Osman Ali Atto. He stayed in American custody for some months. The arrest is portrayed in the film Black Hawk Down.
By 2001, he was the chief of police over Mogadishu as part of the new Transitional National Government (TNG).
In 2006, he fought with the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) against the Islamic Courts Union in the Second Battle of Mogadishu. They surrendered on 11 July 2006, the last Alliance forces to do so.
An August 24, 2006 article in the Sudan Tribune alleges Qeybdiid's involvement with a shadowy Ethiopian-backed intelligence unit known as the Central Revolutionary Investigation Department.
In late 2006, after retreating from Mogadishu, he fought under the name of the newly formed autonomous region known as Galmudug but without any known affiliation or permission as yet. He led its forces, fighting alongside Ethiopia and Puntland allies, in the Battle of Bandiradley.
In 2005, he was arrested in Lund, Sweden on suspicion of genocide, but released after a hearing in Gothenburg found insufficient evidence for a prosecution. In October 2005, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that a video recording incriminating Qeybdid had circulated amongst politically active exiled Somalis for a long time. The film showed how the police chief participated in the execution of young boys in the Somali town of Kismayo in 1991. The sequence is described as brutal, showing someone allegedly looking like Qeybdid interrogating a group of captured child soldiers before giving his militamen orders to open fire on them and kill them. Other claims related to his role in the militia of Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, the time of the First Battle of Mogadishu.
The Swedish authorities' attempts to interrogate Qeybdid proved fruitless, as he refused to answer questions on the grounds that the interpreter provided for him was a member of an enemy clan. The defence attorney appointed to him said, however, that he maintained his innocence. It is believed that the murder of Swedish journalist Martin Adler in Mogadishu could have been carried out by his followers in retaliation for this arrest. However, rumors abound about the motives behind the killing, and no evidence linking Qeybdid to the murder has ever been produced.
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Oct 17, 2005 · 17 Oct 2005. Abdi Hassan Awale, was arrested after Somalis in the Nordic country recognised him and reported him to police, said Gillian Nilsson, an organiser of the conference. Awale, also...
Dec 30, 2017 · MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Masked men who appeared to be members of the Somali security forces raided the house of a powerful Somali senator on Saturday, but the government initially said it did not...
