Bashir Rage Shiiraar is a Somali secular warlord and businessman who hails from the Warsangali clan (an Abgaal subclan).[1]
He became a member of the US-backed Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism.
He was the head of the export department of the El-Ma An port which served as Mogadishu's port following the closure of the city's main harbour in 1995.[2]