Everything about Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid totally explained
Abdi Hasan Awale or
Abdi Qeybdiid, born in 1948, is a
Somali militia leader, or
warlord, affiliated with the
Somali National Alliance and a member of the
Habar Gedir clan. In
December 2006 he led an engagement on behalf of the
Transitional Federal Government (TFG), backed by significant forces of
Ethiopian troops, known as the
Battle of Bandiradley.
He is also the "Mad Abdi" of the July 12, 1993
Abdi House Raid which presaged the
First Battle of Mogadishu.
Career synopsis
Abdi Qeybdid served as a police chief under the dictator
Mohamed Siad Barre in
Somalia.
He achieved 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's a member of the
Sacad sub-clan of the
Habar Gedir clan.
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 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 Ethopian-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 with out any known affiliation or permission as yet. He led its forces, fighting alongside
Ethiopia and
Puntland allies, in the
Battle of Bandiradley.
On
January 1,
2007, he returned to Mogadishu where he pled for there to be no reprisals against the defeated Islamists.
Arrest in Sweden
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 of 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 Somalian town of
Kismayo in 1991, the year of the overthrow of
Siad Barre. 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.
Its well known that the murder of Swedish
journalist Martin Adler in Mogadishu have been carried out by his followers in retaliation for this arrest.
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