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  Abdikasim
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan) (born 1941)
Abdiqasim was a candidate for the presidency of the new national unity government, but he was not
Abdiqasim, of the Hawiye clan, is remembered for his quiet and thoughtful—some say weak and
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  NomadNet:Somalia's new president returns to his destroyed nation
Hassan went directly to his hotel and did not address his supporters, but told The Associated Press that he would immediately begin trying to bring order to Somalia.
While Hassan has not won the support of all of Somalia's militia leaders, he appears to have unqualified support from residents, anxious to see an end to the factional violence that has made the Horn of Africa country ungovernable.
Hassan, his prime minister and 245-member assembly face a daunting task in Somalia, which has been without a central government since January 1991 when dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted.
www.netnomad.com /return.html   (716 words)

  
 Abdiqasim Salad Hassan Information
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan) (born 1941) is a former de jure President of the internationally-recognised government of Somalia, the Transitional National Government.
Abdiqasim was a candidate for the presidency of the new national unity government, but he was not among the 3 candidates who passed the 1st round of voting.
Abdiqasim, of the Hawiye clan, is remembered for his quiet and thoughtful—some say weak and indecisive—leadership.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Abdiqasim_Salad_Hassan   (204 words)

  
 Somalia. In: Amnesty International Report 2001
In July the conference agreed on the formation of a transitional national assembly, which in August elected Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, an exile and former Somalia government Minister of the Interior, as President for three years.
The assembly comprised 245 members, 44 from each of the four major clans, with 25 seats for women and 24 for the minorities, leaving 20 members to be appointed later by the President of Djibouti.
Garad Abshir Salad, a member of the transitional assembly and also of the Puntland parliament, was arrested in September in Berbera while in transit from Puntland.
web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webafrcountries/SOMALIA?OpenDocument   (0 words)

  
 Abdiqasim and Ali Mahdi: One is With the Courts’Delegation; The Other is a Target
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, to begin with, had been recruited by the head of the Communist dictatorship regime, Mohamed Siad Barre after his father was killed by in a clan battle.
Salad Hassan was serving as the Interior Minister, and the deputy of the Prime Minister.
These are the brief information of both Ali Mahdi and Abdiqasim, but why one is so close to the Islamic Courts and the other is a papoose, and the overall direction of the Courts, however, deserve to be discussed and evaluated by everyone who is ebullient to Somali’s contemporary issues.
www.hiiraan.com /op/2006/sept/Abdiqasim-Ali-Mahdi-Abukar-Y-Sanei-140906.aspx   (1042 words)

  
 Abdiqasim Salad Hassan Information
Abdiqasim held several sensitive positions in the Barré government, most notably as his last Interior Minister, responsible for all internal security agencies such as the National Security Service (NSS), the Investigative Department of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the police), and Deputy Prime Minister at same time.
Abdiqasim withdrew from the talks aimed at forming a new government shortly before the mandate expired.
Abdiqasim was a candidate for the presidency of the new national unity government, but he was not among the 3 candidates who passed the 1st round of voting.
abdiqasim-salad-hassan.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Abdiqasim_Salad_Hassan   (1117 words)

  
 Somalia in the crosshairs for terror
Among the attributes of the General that had been advanced by this shameless person, Abdiqasim, was "Aabihii Garashada", and "Aabe Siyaad", meaning the father of knowledge and father Siyaad or the father of the nation respectively.
Abdiqasim is infamous for his callous ability to present the tears of anguish and grieve into adulatory and approval.
Abdiqasim neither has nor does he deserve a chance to con us and the rest of the world again.
www.mudugonline.com /Qoraalo/Muuse.htm   (784 words)

  
 SomaliNet News: Somalia: Abdulahi Yusuf consults with former TNG president : SomaliNet > Somali > Somalia and Somalinad
On his part, Dr. Salad Hassan said that he had discussed with the president over the security issues in the capital and how the government might face the hard tasks of restoring peace and stability in the country.
Salad and Yusuf who had early political rifts declined to respond questions asked by the reporters.
Salad, was the president of the Djibouti formed government in 2000 when he came to power through elections.
www.somalinet.com /news/world/Somalia/6553   (342 words)

  
 BBC FOCUS ON AFRICA()INTERVIEW WITH MR. HASSAN)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He is Abdiqasim Salad Hassan who is elected by the reconciliation conference of clan leaders and elders in Djibouti.
Hassan: First of all Somalia is united, according to Somali people wish and to the international law.
Hassan: We Somalis have a tradition to sit under a tree, to eat what is available to us, camel milk or cow milk.
www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000831104.htm   (647 words)

  
 Front Page - Issue 35 - Yemen Times
President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen arrived Sunday in the town of Arta, Djibouti where he attended a grand ceremony for the inauguration of the new Somali president Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, as the first head of state in almost a decade.
The democratically elected Somali president Abdiqasim Salad Hassan was sworn in Sunday.
Salad, belonging to Hawiye clan, had undertaken portfolios of interior, mineral resources, higher education and sport before Mohammed Siad Barre’s rule was overthrown in 1991.
www.yementimes.com /00/iss35/front.htm   (0 words)

  
 Somalia 2000: Country Report
In the last months of 2000, however, newly-elected president Abdiqasim Salad Hassan and a new transitional legislature tried with some success to assert central authority.
(Both Hassan and the legislature were elected by a citizens' assembly that met in neighboring Djibouti in August.)
On January 26, local radio journalist Ahmed Kafi Awale was killed when thieves fleeing guards at a Mogadishu market shot into a crowd in order to clear their way.
www.cpj.org /attacks00/africa00/Somalia.html   (521 words)

  
 Somali faction call for international force
Gabyow is the chairman of the Somali Reconciliation and Reconstruction Council, or SRRC, an alliance of Ethiopian-backed faction leaders who oppose Somali President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan's transitional government, and accuse his government of having links to terrorist groups.
But some analysts say the faction leaders are using the specter of terrorism to pursue their own agendas against Abdiqasim's government.
Abdiqasim and other government officials have consistently denied that Somalia has links to terrorism and have invited the United States to send experts to investigate the claims.
lang.sbsun.com /socal/terrorist/1201/29/terror07.asp   (305 words)

  
 New Breed of Somali War Criminals are on the rampage in the Guise of Somalia Transitional Government.
The latest of such crimes against humanity, however, is committed in the guise of Somali National transitional Government where warlord's clan had not been enough to enable one to grow fatal horns, alliance with other clans have been sought to exact the annihilation a warlord had in mind.
The Ayr contingent of the JVA militia was put under the command of Deyleef, a close relative of Mr.
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Gen. Galaal, another relative of the same man and the players like Col. Seeraar, Goobaale and Cirfo.
members.tripod.com /~qandala2/id56.htm   (684 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Somalia and TotalFinaElf sign oil exploration agreement
Hassan Abshir Farah, minister for water and mineral resources, said he and TotalFinaElf representative Jean Francisco signed the one-year exploration agreement worth an estimated $ 3.5 mm- $ 4 mm on Feb. 3.
He said that the area of exploration will be in the Indian Ocean between Merca, 120 km (75 miles) south of Mogadishu and Kismayo, 500 km (310 miles) south of the capital.
But the government of President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan is facing stiff opposition from a number of faction leaders who refuse to recognize it.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna11088.htm   (0 words)

  
 The Republican, a weekly English language publication based in Hargeisa,
Among them was a CID police officer called Abdi Hassan Osman who stated that Ali Qoryooley was arrested because of his distribution of a pamphlet in the House of Representatives meetings hall.
The film with the title of “Somaliland: Rising from the ashes” is the brainchild of Jeremy Brickly, a white Zimbabwian who is also a veteran of that country’s war of liberation.
Ali Mahdi who like Abdiqasim Salad was nominated as president for Somalia in a 1991 Djibouti conference, has been living in exile in Egypt for the last 3 years.
www.somalilandforum.com /news/the_republican/Republican-Editorials2.htm   (7269 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
He has a brother Abdi Salad Hassan, also active in Somali politics.
Abdiqasim held several sensitive positions in the Barré government, most notably as his last Interior Minister, responsible for all internal security agencies such as the National Security Service (NSS), the Investigative Department of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the police), and Deputy Prime Minister at same time.
During his tenure, he presided over several controversial actions, including the severe crackdowns and aerial bombings in Hergeysa and Berbera, during which large numbers of civillians disappeared and are known to have disappeared (and believed to have been tortured and killed.)
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abdiqasim_Salad_Hassan   (343 words)

  
 Welcome banadir.com
NAIROBI, 15 November (IRIN) - Somali President Abdiqasim Salad Hasan was expected to arrive in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on..
NAIROBI, 16 October (IRIN)- Interim president Abdiqasim Salad Hasan arrived in Somalia's devastated capital on Saturday to an ecstatic.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct. 2) XINHUA - Malaysia welcomes the choice of Abdulqasim Salad Hassan as President of Somalia and is confident that his new government...
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 SomaliNet Forum (Archive) - Protests by Somaliland Diaspora held in Europe
The BBC Somali service which is headed by Yusuf Garad, a close relative of Abdiqasim Salad Boy, gave a one minute coverage to last Saturday’s demonstration by Somalilanders living in London.
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan who was chosen towards the end of August as “President of Somalia” by Somali individuals who were assembled for thise purpose at Arta, Djibouti, is on his way to become another warlord.
The escalation of tension and hostilities in Mogadishu since the proclamation of Salad as president could have grave consequences for the relatively improved security situation in the capital of former Somalia, during the last two years.
somalinet.com /forum/messages/6050/9513.html?971460886   (3690 words)

  
 To the Victor Goes all the ....   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition, I believe Abdiqasim Salad has the resolve to do justice and heal the Somali wound in general.
In addition, Mudulood is fearful of Cayr retaliation once Abdiqasim assumes the Presidency and consolidates his power, since their militia will form the new Somali Military Police and will have access to modern weapons and improved logistics.
Somalia needs a fresh new face and the country is much better position with the leadership of Abdiqasim to go forward and for more people to participate in the needed constitutional changes and for more defined interests of the country.
www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000903602.htm   (1592 words)

  
 JS Online: Somalia's Leader Sees Progress
Abdiqasim's election last summer at a peace conference in neighboring Djibouti was largely the work of businessmen in the war-ravaged capital who had managed to restore many essential services.
Even within Mogadishu, Abdiqasim admitted that his administration has had difficulty restoring peace, as the city is still disputed among rival faction leaders and their heavily armed gunmen.
But the legislators are forced to use a former police training college as their parliament because the building that houses the former legislature is in territory controlled by a faction leader opposed to the government.
www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/aug01/ap-somalia-one-yea082701.asp   (715 words)

  
 Somalis celebrate as Parliament elects first president in 10 years
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - With men, women and children dancing and singing in the streets, Somalis celebrated the election of their first president in almost a decade with a unity that will be vital if the new head of state is to fulfil his promise of bringing peace to Somalia.
Hours after Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, a former interior minister, won presidential elections early Saturday, people around the country took to the streets, businesses shut down and restaurants offered free meals in what became a spontaneous national holiday.
The election of Hassan, who promised to bring economic recovery and peace to the country of seven million, came as a result of a conference that began in Arta, a small town in neighbouring Djibouti, on May 2.
www.arlaadinet.com /News/August/somalis_celebrate_as_parliament_.htm   (711 words)

  
 Somalia Urges UN to Help It Fight Terrorism - 9/11 - Global Policy Forum
In a report circulated Wednesday, the government said the United Nations has two choices: watch the country slide back into anarchy and chaos or lend active support to the government in its struggle against terrorism.
President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan's transitional government is Somalia's first central authority since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
Abdiqasim and his government are struggling financially and have little influence outside the capital, and clan-based factions still rule much of the Horn of Africa nation.
www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/terrorism/2002/0214philip.htm   (581 words)

  
 $5m reward offered over abductions of 3 - The Boston Globe
The gunmen demanded cash from President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, who wields little power in the lawless country, if he wanted to fly out of the Ballidogleh airport.
The gunmen said they were former Abdiqasim bodyguards who hadn't received their salaries.
Abdiqasim refused to pay, and returned to Mogadishu with his entourage after a standoff at the airfield, said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2003/10/10/5m_reward_offered_over_abductions_of_3?mode=PF   (658 words)

  
 Alldalka.com
Abdiqasim and Ali Mahdi: One is With the Courts
Having Abdiqasim on board with the Court's delegation to Libya, and forcing Ali Mahdi to leave his car maybe another hint that gives where the Islamic Court's direction is heading.
In his term of presidency, Dr. Abdiqasim was not calling for implementation of Shari’a in Somalia, and his constitution was not from the Holy Qur’an or the tradition of Prophet Mohamed [pbuh].
alldalka.com /News-copy(1)_copy(134).htm   (1252 words)

  
 Abdiqasim Salad’s Misrepresentation of Reality
Abdiqasim Salad Hasan, leader of Arta group in Somalia has recently given an interview to Al-Jazeera Arab TV.
Abdiqasim Salad Hasan knows the fact that Somaliland is not a tribal entity (Qabiil) as he told in the interview but though comprising of various clans, a nation which has an ancient historical root and all the ingredients that legitimize a nation and a sovereign state.
Abdiqasim’s interview with Al-Jazeera shows not only a poverty of political vision, a bankruptcy of ethical politics, but a cynical denial of the facts on the ground and a misrepresentation of Somaliland history and people.
www.somalilandtimes.net /2003/59/5903.htm   (367 words)

  
 CNN.com - Somalia militias battle kills 15 - July 29, 2002
Civilians were caught in the crossfire, as the battles spread to a residential area and on Sunday fighting intensified with both sides using heavy artillery.
Regional government leader Colonel Hassan Mohamed Nur Shargudud is reported to be battling Sheikh Adan Madobeh and Mohamed Ibrahim Habsadeh -- deputies in his Rahanwein Resistance Army.
President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan's transitional government -- appointed at a peace conference in 2000 — controls only small pockets of the country.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/07/29/somalia.fighting   (241 words)

  
 Shasna..TNG so-called Islamic Courts, UN Irin and BBC...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They are led by now the fugitive and one of America's most wanted terrorists, Col. Hassan Dahir Aweys, a friend of Osama bin Laden and a member of the sub-clan.
Abdi Salad Hassan, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan's brother; and the other is the BBC Somali Desk, headed by a close cousin of Mr.
Salad Hassan, after he was chased out of his strongholds in northern Mogadishu, has on June 2, 2002, met his base.
www.somaliawatch.org /archivejun02/020608201.htm   (868 words)

  
 CNN.com - Thousands gather for Somalia's Independence Day - July 1, 2001
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan's fledgling government displayed its muscle Sunday as some 10,000 uniformed police and soldiers paraded before huge crowds at the largest public gathering in the capital for a decade -- three days after a fierce gunfight rocked the capital.
And Abdiqasim and other leaders told a gathering of tens of thousands of Somalis celebrating the country's 41st Independence Day that the 11-month-old government would continue its battle against lawlessness.
Somalia did not have a central government from the time Barre was ousted by clan-based faction leaders until the election of Abdiqasim and 245-legislators at a peace conference in neighboring Djibouti last August.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/07/01/somalia.celebrations.ap/index.html   (347 words)

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