Sheikh Mukhtar Robow

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The Deputy head of security of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), was in the forefront of organising an Islamic army and youth training camps. To be sure, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow better known as "Abu Mansur" has been put in charge of organising Islamic resistance in the event of an incursion of Ethiopian troops into Somalia. A radical Islamist who fought with the Talibans in Afghanistan at the beginning of the 2000s, Mukhtar Robow was born in the 1960s in the Bardale district, in the Bay province in the south of Somalia. He studied at the local Koranic school and later continued his religious education in the mosques in Mogadishu and his home region. A member of the Rahanwein clan, present particularly in the Baidoa region, and more specifically of the Leysan sub-clan, Mukhtar Robow also studied Islamic law in the 1990s at the Universityof Khartoum.

He subsequently returned to Mogadishu and worked for the Al-Haramein Saudi foundation, which was later accused by the United States of having links with Islamic terrorists. He was then teaching Islamic education to the orphans the foundation was looking after. His Arabic nickname “Abu Mansur” reinforces the theory that he has frequented Middle East radical Islamists.

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