Hassan Dahir Aweys

Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweis (* 1945; Somali: Xasan Daahir Aweys ) is a leader of political Islam in Somalia. He was one of the leading figures of the Islamic Courts Union, he shall within which as representatives of a radical attitude.

Hassan Dahir Aweis was Colonel ( Colonel) under the President and dictator Siad Barre was, among other things, in Ogadenkrieg. He later served in the Civil War the warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, before the radical Islamist organization al - Itihaad al - Islamiya ( AIAI ) turned to. AIAI targeted with financial support from the Arab Gulf States to the establishment of an Islamic theocracy and to have had contacts with the international terrorism and al - Qaeda. Portions of this organization were incorporated into the Union of Islamic Courts, which included a wide range of moderate to radical and militant elements. Hassan Dahir Aweis was considered a " hard-liners " within the Union.

After the Union of Islamic Courts had taken on June 5, 2006 Mogadishu and large parts of southern Somalia controlled soon after he was elected in mid-June as the leader of a 88 -member regional parliament. There he sat down for the widespread introduction of Islamic law, the Shari'a, a. Since the overthrow of the Islamic Courts Union by Ethiopian troops, he is in exile in Asmara, Eritrea, and acts from there to the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia for the withdrawal of Ethiopia from Somalia and the establishment of an Islamic state.

Hassan Dahir Aweis describes himself as a devout scholar and freedom fighter. He wears in public always big glasses and a red with henna dyed beard. The U.S. accuses him links to the terrorist network al - Qaeda before - what Aweis denies - and lead him on a list of wanted terrorists.