Omar Muhamoud Finnish

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Omar Muhamoud Finnish (also Umar Mahmud Muhammad Finish, Mahmud Muhammad Finish or Umar Finish, and sometimes Filish) is a Mogadishu-based warlord.

1 United Somali Congress/Somali Salvation Alliance (USC/SSA)
2 ARPCT
3 Transitional Federal Government
4 References

[edit] United Somali Congress/Somali Salvation Alliance (USC/SSA)

He is leader of a splinter movement of the United Somali Congress/Somali Salvation Alliance (USC/SSA), which had been initially loyal to Ali Mahdi Mohammed during the Somali Civil War. He was also once the loyal deputy of Musa Sudi Yalahow, but the two split and fought over control of Mogadishu.^[1]

[edit] ARPCT

Main articles: ARPCT and Second Battle of Mogadishu

In early 2006, he was a member of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), a CIA-backed alliance which fought against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). His forces were defeated by the ICU militia in the Second Battle of Mogadishu.

[edit] Transitional Federal Government

Main articles: Fall of Mogadishu and Disarmament in Somalia

When the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was organized in 2004, he was one of the 275 selected members of the Transitional Federal Parliament enumerated in the official list of August 29, 2004, listed as the Hon. Omar Mohamud Mohamed (Filish). His term expires in 2009.^[2]

After the defeat of the ICU by the alliance of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the autonomous states of Puntland and Galmudug, various warlords and, most importantly, the army of Ethiopia, he returned to Mogadishu and was present on January 12, 2007 at Villa Somalia where an agreement was reached between the Mogadishu warlords and the TFG to disarm the militias and to direct members to join the national army and police.^[3]