Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale

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Barre Adan Shire (Somali: Barre Aadan Shire), also known as Barre Hiiraale is the former Minister for National Reconstruction and Resettlement and is now the current Minister of defense in the Transitional Federal Government formed in Nairobi, Kenya in 2004. He is also the Chairman of the Jubba Valley Alliance which controls Southern and Southwestern Somalia including the third largest city of Somalia, the strategic port town of Kismayo. He presides over the largest autonomous area in that country, as well as commanding an extensive Somali militia.

Barre Hiiraale has recently offered to mediate between the two feuding factions of the government based in Jowhar and Mogadishu, led by President Abdullahi Yusuf and the Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan respectively.

Barre Hiiraale was born in Gelaadi of what is today part of the Ogaden controlled area of Ethiopia. He moved to neighbouring Abudwak in the Galgadud region of Somalia and from there on to Mogadishu for secondary school. Hiiraale went to the prestigious United States military school at West Point. That scholarship and patronage was part of cold-war treaties signed by Mogadishu and Washington in exchange for Washington's use of naval facilities in the coastal Somali cities of Kismayo, Mogadishu, and Berbera. Barre Hiiraale came back with a degree in military science as well as political relations in military warfare. Barre Hiiraale was an army Colonel when the Somali civil war began. He is much admired by his friends and foes. Recently, the supreme leader of the newly formed ICU has sent praises to Barre Hiiraale, calling him a honorable and a patriotic leader.

Barre Hiiraale is currently in Baidoa to assume his minister position. It is most likely that in the near future, he will lead the first Somali National army and conquer the capital city of Somalia.

His legacies:

1. The defeat and humiliation of Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed and his USC in Gedo region which was also the biggest turning point of the Somali civil war.

2. The liberation of Kismayo and Lower Jubba region with the defeat and ousting of Mohamed Hersi "Morgan" and his militia.

3. Barre Hiiraale is known to be trustworthy and honorable man in the Somali army as well as in the Somali Political arena. He is the most desired man to become the Somali President in the future. He is a friend of neighbouring as well as Islamic moderate countries in the Region.

4. He is a man with a vision and leadership. He is planning to transform the Somali Society from a nomadic, clan-based society to a modern, welfare state.