The strongest was the Islamic Courts Union which ruled Mogadishu for six months last year included Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' identified by both the UN and USA as linked to Al Qaida...
Addis Ababa concerned by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys's calls for a 'Greater Somalia' to include parts of Ethiopia Djibouti and Kenya remains alarmed by the danger that Al Shabaab's Eritrean-backed terrorism will spread across the border into Ethiopia's unstable Somali state (AC Vol 48 No 19)...
Notably the Ayr were closely linked to the ICU: Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' is Ayr as is Adan Hashi 'Ayro' commander of Al Shabaab...
The Abgal will not back Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed the former ICU Executive Committee Chairman as one of their clan representatives at the NRC because he allowed Ayr leaders such as Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' and Shabaab Commander Adan Hashi 'Ayro' to take control of the ICU in June last year failing to preserve the 'rightful place' of the Abgal/Mudalood/Hawiye in running Mogadishu...
Vol 48 No 9 |
- ERITREA
- SOMALIA
One main reason for Ethiopia's intervention in Somalia last year was that Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' Chairman of the ICU council and an advocate of Somali irredentism had visited Asmara to ask for regional support against the Transitional Federal Government (TFG)...
Most Abgal believed that the ICU had been hijacked by Salafi jihadist warlords led by two Ayr/Habr Gidir sheikhs Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' and Ayro together with some ex-Afghanistanmujahideen and opportunistic clan warlords such as Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad 'Indha Adde' (Ayr)...
Both SICC leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' and commander of the SICC's Al Shabaab (Youth) militia Sheikh Adan Hashi 'Ayro' are Ayr/Habr Gidir/Hawiye...
The questioning led by 'Mahad' an SICC intelligence officer was interrupted by the phone call and intervention of SICC leader Sheik Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' who is wanted as a designated terrorist by the United States...
Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Iran Libya Saudi Arabia and Syria together with Hezbollah from Lebanon are identified as providing arms training supplies or troops to the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC formerly Islamic Courts Union) regime under Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' in Mogadishu...
As the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia started their third round of talks in Sudan on 1 November Ethiopia insisted it would protect the TFG in Baidoa while the SICC's Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' threatened to attack the town...
For now there is little middle ground let alone appetite for sharing power between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) under President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in Baidoa and the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) under Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' in Mogadishu...