Fuad Mohamed Qalaf

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Sheikh Fuad Mohamed Qalaf (Somali: Fu'aad Maxamed Khalaf, born March 28, 1965) is a Somali Islamist and leading member of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).

Born in Mogadishu^{[citation needed]}, Qalaf came to Sweden as an asylum seeker in 1992 and later received Swedish citizenship.^[1][2] He stayed in Sweden for twelve years, most of the time working as an Imam at a mosque in the Stockholm area.^[1][2] As such, he worked to influence young Muslims about Jihad.^[1] In 2004, Qalaf returned to Somalia together with his family to fight with the Islamic Courts Union in the war against the Transitional Federal Government and allied Ethiopian forces.^[1] Following the conquest of Mogadishu in 2006, Qalaf went on to serve as head of the Department of Education under the new ICU-government.^[1][2] The Somali human rights group Sultan Hurre Human Rights Focus also described him as a "senior leader" of ICU militant youth wing Hizbul Shabaab.^[3] After the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in December 2006 and subsequent topple of the ICU-government, Qalaf and other ICU leaders fled to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.^[4] In April 2007 he was reported as living in Kenya.^[1]

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NAME	Qalaf, Fuad Mohamed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Islamist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Somalia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH