UN – Security Council Committee on Somalia and Eritrea Issues List of Wanted Individuals

Wilfred Mulliro

Mogadishu(Alshahid) – Identified Pursuant to Paragraph 8 of Resolution 1844 (2008). The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, today, 12 April 2010 listed the following individuals and entity pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 1844 (2008):

(1) AL-SHABAAB

AKA: AL-SHABAB; AKA: SHABAAB; AKA: THE YOUTH; AKA: MUJAHIDIN AL-SHABAAB MOVEMENT

AKA: MUJAHIDEEN YOUTH MOVEMENT; AKA: MUJAHIDIN YOUTH MOVEMENT

AKA: MYM; AKA: HARAKAT SHABAB AL-MUJAHIDIN; AKA: HIZBUL SHABAAB

AKA: HISB’UL SHABAAB; AKA: AL-SHABAAB AL-ISLAMIYA; AKA: YOUTH WING

AKA: AL-SHABAAB AL-ISLAAM; AKA: AL-SHABAAB AL-JIHAAD

AKA: THE UNITY OF ISLAMIC YOUTH; AKA: HARAKAT AL-SHABAAB AL-MUJAAHIDIIN

AKA: HARAKATUL SHABAAB AL MUJAAHIDIIN; AKA: MUJAAHIDIIN YOUTH MOVEMENT

NB: AKA (Also Known As), Location: Somalia

Al-Shabaab has engaged in acts that directly or indirectly threaten the peace, security, or stability of Somalia, including but not limited to: acts that threaten the Djibouti Agreement of August 18, 2008, or the political process; and, acts that threaten the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs), the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), or other international peacekeeping operations related to Somalia.

Al-Shabaab has also obstructed the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Somalia, or access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Somalia.

By the Statement of the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia to the Security Council delivered on 29 July 2009, both al-Shabaab and Hisb’ul Islam publicly and repeatedly claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and AMISOM. Al-Shabaab had also claimed responsibility for the killing of TFG officials, and on 19 July 2009 had raided and shut down the field offices of UNOPS, UNDSS and UNDP in the Bay and Bakool regions, in violation of paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1844 (2008). Al-Shabaab has also repeatedly obstructed access to, or distribution of, humanitarian assistance in Somalia.

The United Nations Security Council’s Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia, dated 20 July 2009, pointed out that activities of al-Shabaab in Somalia are aided by foreigners:

Al-Shabaab has confirmed the presence of foreign fighters within its ranks and has stated openly that it is working with al-Qaida in Mogadishu to remove the Government of Somalia. The foreign fighters, many of whom reportedly originate from Pakistan and Afghanistan, appear to be well trained and battle-tested. They have been observed wearing hoods and directing offensive operations against Government forces in Mogadishu and neighboring regions.

According to the December 2008 report from the UN Security Council Somalia Monitoring Group (2008/769), al-Shabaab is responsible for a variety of attacks within Somalia over the last several years, including:

- The reported killing and beheading of a Somali driver working for the World Food Programme in September 2008.

- The bombing of a market in Puntland that killed 20 and wounded over 100 on 6 February 2008.

- A campaign of bombings and targeted killings in Somaliland intended to disrupt the 2006 parliamentary elections.

- The murders of several foreign aid workers in 2003 and 2004.

According to reporting, al-Shabaab raided United Nations compounds in Somalia on 20 July 2009, and issued a decree banning three agencies of the United Nations from the al-Shabaab controlled areas of Somalia. Additionally, Somali Transitional Federal Government forces fought al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam insurgents from 11-12 July 2009 resulting in the deaths of over 60 people. In the fighting on 11 July 2009, al-Shabaab landed four mortars inside Villa Somalia that killed three African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers and injuries to eight others.

Al-Shabaab is accused of attacking the AU military base in Mogadishu where 11 African Union peacekeepers were killed and 15 others were hurt in the 2009 attack.

 (2) Yasin Ali Baynah

AKA: ALI, Yasin Baynah; AKA: ALI, Yassin Mohamed; AKA: BAYNAH, Yasin

AKA: BAYNAH, Yassin; AKA: BAYNAX, Yasiin Cali; AKA: BEENAH, Yasin

AKA: BEENAH, Yassin; AKA: BEENAX, Yasin; AKA: BEENAX, Yassin

AKA: BENAH, Yasin; AKA: BENAH, Yassin; AKA: BENAX, Yassin

AKA: BEYNAH, Yasin; AKA: BINAH, Yassin; AKA: CALI, Yasiin Baynax

Location: Rinkeby, Stockholm, Sweden; Mogadishu, Somalia

DOB: circa 1966; Nationality: Somalia; Alt. Nationality: Sweden

Yasin Ali Baynah has incited attacks against the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). He has also mobilized support and raised funds on behalf of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia and Hisbul Islam, both of which have actively engaged in acts that threaten the peace and security of Somalia, including rejection of the Djibouti Agreement, and attacks on the TFG and AMISOM forces in Mogadishu.

(3) Hassan Dahir Aweys

AKA: ALI, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys; AKA: AWES, Hassan Dahir; AKA: AWES, Shaykh Hassan Dahir; AKA: AWEYES, Hassen Dahir; AKA: AWEYS, Ahmed Dahir; AKA: AWEYS, Sheikh

AKA: AWEYS, Sheikh Hassan Dahir; AKA: DAHIR, Aweys Hassan; AKA: IBRAHIM, Mohammed Hassan

AKA: OAIS, Hassan Tahir; AKA: UWAYS, Hassan Tahir; AKA: “HASSAN, Sheikh”

Location: Somalia; Eritrea; DOB: 1935; Citizen: Somalia; Nationality: Somalia

Hassan Dahir Aweys has acted and continues to act as a senior political and ideological leader of a variety of armed opposition groups responsible for repeated violations of the general and complete arms embargo and/or acts that threaten the Djibouti peace agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces. In July 2008 he declared himself chairman of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia-Asmara wing; and in May 2009 he was named chairman of Hisbul Islam. In each of these positions, AWEYS’s statements and actions have demonstrated an unequivocal and sustained intention to dismantle the TFG and expel AMISOM by force from Somalia.

(4) Hassan Abdullah Hersi Al-Turki

AKA: AL-TURKI, Hassan; AKA: TURKI, Hassan; AKA: TURKI, Hassan Abdillahi Hersi

AKA: TURKI, Sheikh Hassan; AKA: XIRSI, Xasan Cabdilaahi; AKA: XIRSI, Xasan Cabdulle

Location: Somalia; DOB: circa 1944; POB: Ogaden Region, Ethiopia; Nationality: Somalia

Hassan Abdullah Hersi Al-Turki has been a senior leader of an armed militia group since the mid-1990s and had engaged in numerous arms embargo violations. In 2006, al-Turki contributed forces to the Islamic Courts Union take-over of Mogadishu and emerged as a military leader in the group, aligned with al-Shabaab. Since 2006, al-Turki has made territory under his control available for training by various armed opposition groups including al-Shabaab. In September 2007, al-Turki appeared in an al-Jazeera news video showing militia training under his leadership.

(5) Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed

AKA: ABU ZUBEYR, Muktar Abdirahman;AKA: ABUZUBAIR, Muktar Abdulrahim

AKA: AW MOHAMMED, Ahmed Abdi; AKA: AW-MOHAMUD, Ahmed Abdi

AKA: “GODANE”; AKA: “GODANI”; AKA: “MUKHTAR, Shaykh”

AKA: “ZUBEYR, Abu”

DOB: 10 Jul 1977, POB: Hargeysa, Somalia, Nationality: Somalia

Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed is a senior leader of al-Shabaab and was publically named emir of the organization in December 2007. In a May 2009 audio recording to Somali media, he acknowledged that his forces were engaged in recent fighting in Mogadishu.

(6) Fuad Mohamed Khalaf

AKA: Fuad Mohamed Khalif; AKA: Fuad Mohamed Qalaf; AKA: Fuad Mohammed Kalaf

AKA: Fuad Mohamed Kalaf; AKA: Fuad Mohammed Khalif; AKA: Fuad Khalaf

AKA: Fuad Shongale; AKA: Fuad Shongole; AKA: Fuad Shangole; AKA: Fuad Songale

AKA: Fouad Shongale; AKA: Fuad Muhammad Khalaf Shongole

Nationality: Somali, Alt. Nationality: Swedish, Location: Mogadishu, Somalia

Khalaf has facilitated financial support to al-Shabaab; in May 2008, he held two fundraising events for al-Shabaab at mosques in Kismaayo, Somalia. In May 2008, Khalaf and a group of fighters attacked and captured a police station in Mogadishu, killing and wounding several soldiers.

(7) Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud

AKA: Bashir Mohamed Mahmoud; AKA: Bashir Mahmud Mohammed

AKA: Bashir Mohamed Mohamud; AKA: Bashir Mohamed Mohamoud

AKA: Bashir Yare; AKA: Bashir Qorgab; AKA: Gure Gap

AKA: “Abu Muscab”; AKA: “Qorgab”

DOB: Circa 1979-1982; DOB: 1982, Nationality: Somali, Location: Mogadishu, Somalia

Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud is a military commander of al-Shabaab. Mahamoud was also one of approximately ten members on al-Shabaab’s leadership council as of late 2008. Mahamoud and an associate were in charge of the 10 June 2009 mortar attack against the Somali Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu.

(8) Mohamed Sa’id

AKA: “Atom”; AKA: Mohamed Sa’id Atom; AKA: Mohamed Siad Atom

DOB: Circa 1966; POB: Galgala, Somalia; Location: Galgala, Somalia

MOHAMED SA’ID “ATOM” has engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Somalia. ATOM has directly or indirectly supplied, sold, or transferred to Somalia arms or related materiel or advice, training, or assistance, including financing and financial assistance, related to military activities in violation of the arms embargo. ATOM has been identified as one of the principal suppliers of arms and ammunition for al-Shabaab operations in the Puntland region. He is described as the leader of a militia that emerged in 2006 in the eastern Sanaag region of northern Somalia. The militia comprises as many as 250 fighters and has been implicated in incidents of kidnapping, piracy and terrorism, and imports its own weapons, in violation of the arms embargo. ATOM has established his force with a primary base near Galgala and a secondary base near Badhan.

ATOM is reportedly involved in arms trafficking into Somalia. Information from a number of sources indicates that his forces receive arms and equipment from Yemen and Eritrea According to a Bossaso businessman familiar with the arms trade, ATOM’s consignments do not enter the arms market, suggesting that they are either retained for the use of his forces or are transferred to recipients in southern Somalia, where al-Shabaab operates.

ATOM’s forces were implicated in the kidnapping of a German aid worker, in the kidnapping of two Somalis near Bossaso, and in a bombing of Ethiopian migrants in Bossaso on 5 February 2008, which killed 20 people and wounded over 100 others. ATOM’s militia may also have played a secondary role in the kidnapping of a German couple captured by pirates in June 2008.

(9) Fares Mohammed Mana’a

AKA: Faris Mana’a; AKA: Fares Mohammed ManaaDOB: February 8, 1965; POB: Sadah, Yemen; Passport No.: 00514146; Place of Issue: Sanaa, Yemen

ID Card No.: 1417576; Place of Issue: Al-Amana, Yemen; Date of Issue: January 7, 1996

FARES MOHAMMED MANA’A has directly or indirectly supplied, sold or transferred to Somalia arms or related material in violation of the arms embargo. Mana’a is a known arms trafficker. In October 2009, the Yemeni government released a blacklist of arms dealers with Mana’a “on top,” as part of an effort to stem the flood of weapons in the country. In a January 2008 Yemen Times article, he is referred to as “Sheikh Faris Mana’a, an arms tradesman.”

In 2004, Mana was involved in weapons contracts from Eastern Europe for weapons allegedly marketed to Somali fighters. Despite the Somalia UN arms embargo since 1992, Mana’a's interest in trafficking arms into Somalia can be traced back at least to 2003. MANA’A made an offer to buy thousands of arms in 2003 from Eastern Europe, and indicated that he planned to sell some of the arms in Somalia.

The list will be transmitted to all States for their information and necessary use and will be posted on the Committee’s webpage: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/751/index.shtml