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Statue of Sayyid Abdullah Hassan on his favourite horse Hiin-Faniin. Formerly located in Somalia, it was destroyed during a civil war in the 1990's.

the image can be found at the following Somali webpages [1][2][3][4]

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the articles "Somalia " and "Mohammed Abdullah Hassan":

To illustrate the object in question;
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information;
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qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair Use in Somalia and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

the statue is a tribute to an important figure in Somali History
During the height of the civil war in the 90's this statue was caught in the destruction of that era making it impossible to take new images of it.
This image is used on multiple Somali websites regarding Sayyid's legacy because of this reason

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(del) (cur) 04:29, 6 March 2007 . . RoboRanks (Talk | contribs) . . 335×500 (30,681 bytes) (==Fair Use== ''*the statue is a tribute to an important figure in Somali History ''* During the height of the civil war in the 90's this statue was caught in the destruction of that era making it impossible to take new images of it. ''* This image is use)