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{{Short description|Somali politician (born 1948)}}
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{{Infobox politician
| name                = Abdi Hasan Awale
| image               = Abdi Hasan Awale in 2019 (cropped).png
| birth_date          = {{birth year and age|1948}}
| birth_place         =
| office              = 3rd [[List of Presidents of Galmudug|President of Galmudug]]
| term_start          = 1 August 2012
| term_end            = 23 July 2015
| vicepresident       = [[Abdisamad Nuur Gulled]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://piracyreport.com/index.php/post/3562/Galmudug_Elects_New_President|title=SomaliaReport: Galmudug Elects New President|website=piracyreport.com}}</ref>
| predecessor         = [[Mohamed Ahmed Alin]]
| successor           = [[Abdikarim Hussein Guled]]
| office2             = [[Chief of police]] of [[Mogadishu]]
| term_start2         = 12 November 2001
| term_end2           = 8 December 2003
| primeminister2      = Hassan Abshir Farah
| predecessor2        =
| successor2          =
| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| caption             = Awale in 2019
}}
'''Abdi Hasan Awale''' or '''Abdi Qeybdiid''' ({{langx|so|Cabdi Xasan Cawaale (Qeybdiid)}}, {{langx|ar|عبدي حسن عوالي قيبديد}}; born 1948) is a [[Somalis|Somali]] politician.
Qeybdiid was a high ranking member of the [[Somali National Alliance]] during the 1990s. He later served as police chief for both the [[Somali Police Force|National]] and the Mogadishu forces.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=18 Feb 1999 |title=New beat for Somalia |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/282249.stm |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> In 2006 he was a leading figure in the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] backed [[Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism|Somali Warlord Alliance]] fighting the [[Islamic Courts Union|Islamic Courts]], transitioning during the [[War in Somalia (2006–2009)|Ethiopian military occupation]] the following year to Commissioner of Police for the [[Transitional Federal Government of Somalia|Transitional Federal Government]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Albin-Lackey |first=Christopher |date=2008-12-08 |title="So Much to Fear" |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/12/08/so-much-fear/war-crimes-and-devastation-somalia |journal=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}</ref>
In 2012, he was elected President of [[Galmudug]] state, holding office until 2015.
== Personal life ==
Abdi Hasan Awale was born in 1948 in [[Galkacyo]], [[Somalia]]. He is a member of the [[Sacad]] sub-clan of the [[Habar Gedir]] clans.{{Citation needed|date=March 2013}}
==Political career==
Abdi Hasan Awale rose to prominence as [[Mohammed Farrah Aidid]]'s interior minister in its clashes with UN forces during the so-called "nation-building" phase of [[UNOSOM II]] in 1993.
By 2001, he was the chief of police over Mogadishu as part of the new [[Transitional National Government]] (TNG).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Disorder reigns, but Somalia rulers see calm, progress |url=http://www.netnomad.com/globesom.html |date=2001-03-12 |access-date=2007-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118055630/http://www.netnomad.com/globesom.html |archive-date=2006-11-18 }}</ref>
In 2006, he fought with the [[Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism]] (ARPCT) against the [[Islamic Courts Union]] in the [[Second Battle of Mogadishu]]. They surrendered on 11 July 2006, the last Alliance forces to do so.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5167766.stm|title=Somali Islamists win city battle|date=July 11, 2006|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
He defected from the alliance in June 2006, saying, "Since the formation of ARPCT, Mogadishu has been a centre of a military crisis that has led to the needless death of hundreds of people, therefore I decide to quit the alliance to build on the gains of the Islamic tribunals and give peace a chance".<ref>{{cite news|date=13 June 2006|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/6/13/us-backed-somali-commander-defects|title=US-backed Somali commander defects|publisher=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> In December 2006, he led an engagement on behalf of the [[Transitional Federal Government]] (TFG), backed by a sizable contingent of [[Ethiopia]]n troops, known as the [[Battle of Bandiradley]]. He is also the "Tiger Abdi" of the 12 July 1993 [[Abdi House raid|Abdi House Raid]], which presaged the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|First Battle of Mogadishu]]. On 1 January 2007, he returned to Mogadishu where he pleaded for there to be no reprisals against the defeated Islamists.<ref>{{cite news |title = Somalia: No revenge against Islamists - former warlord |url = http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/6350 |website = somalinet.com |date = 2007-01-01 |access-date = 2007-01-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070128005937/http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/6350 |archive-date = 2007-01-28 |url-status = dead}}</ref>
He was elected on 1 August 2012 as the new president of [[Galmudug]] state, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia.
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[[Category:Presidents of Galmudug]]
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[[Category:Somali National Alliance politicians]]
[[Category:Battle of Mogadishu (1993)]]