Ali Mahdi Muhammad

Ali Mahdi Mohammed (Arabic علي مهدي محمد ) ( born 1939 ) is a Somali politician and warlord who in 1991 after the fall of dictator Siad Barre proclaimed himself as the new president of the country. The choice of name is Mahdi, reminiscent of an earlier national hero of Somalia, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.

Although Mahdi Chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC) was, who had played the leading role in the capture of Mogadishu and the fall Barrés, pushed his claim to be therefore called automatically as the new President, resistance from the USC militia leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. In 1991, it was the separation of the USC, the capital and the country. A civil war began, the UNOSOM could not reconcile the rival parties.

Although let Aidid exclaim after the withdrawal of U.S. troops to counter- president, joined his chief financial backer and ally, Osman Hassan Ali " Ato " to Mahdi over and trained with this and Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed since 1997 an unstable State in which Mahdi only more exercised the presidency, but was not regarded as President. Aidid's followers and allies formed a kind of counter-government.

With the agreement on two other transitional governments or interim president since 2000 (see Transitional National Government) Mahdi largely disappeared into obscurity.

Aden Abdullah Osman Daar | Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | Mohammed Siad Barre 1991 collapse of the state, President title has been claimed by: Ali Mahdi Mohammed | Abdikassim Salad Hassan | Hussein Mohammed Farah | vacant from 1997 Transitional government from 2000: Abdikassim Salad Hassan | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed | Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

• Military person (Somalia)
• President ( Somalia)
• Born in 1939
• Man