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| | PRESS RELEASE: TRIBUTE TO YAHYA |
 | | Abdulkadir Yahya Ali, was held at Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Over 200 guests, including family, friends, colleagues and a large number of the Somali Community in the area attended to pay tribute to one of the most respected peace advocates in Somalia. |
 | | Ambassador Crigler vividly remembered interviewing Yahya, one of his employees at the US Embassy in Mogadishu, for a promotion in the diplomatic office as one of the most impressive, energetic, and enthusiastic young men he ever saw and the only Somali ever to work in the diplomatic section of the embassy. |
 | | “Yahya saw Somalia falling apart and he tried to hold it together, he saw his country naked and shivering in the world stage among the community of nations and tried to cloth and cover her. |
| www.hiiraan.org /2005/aug/Yahye_memorialDC.htm (1099 words) |
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