Abdiqadir Kosar Abdi

Abdiqadir Kosar Abdi
Chairman of the Somali National Movement
In office
November 1983[1] – August 1984
Preceded byYusuf Sheikh Ali Madar
Succeeded byAhmed Mohamed Mohamoud Death 12/July/1987, in feerfeer town

Abdiqadir Kosar Abdi was a Somalilander military leader. He was a Colonel of the SNA he was deputy commander battle of Godoy, one of the most skilled officer's in SNA and the third chairman of the Somaliland National Movement. He hailed from the Rer Warsama Said (Warabe) of the Habr Yunis sub-division of the garhajis Isaaq clan .[2][3][4]

SNM

Kosar was a colonel of the Somali national army and a highly respected veteran of the 1977 Ogaden War. In the early '80s, he was among the many Isaaq military officials who defected from the SNA due to the widespread nepotism and corruption of the Barre regime. Kosar joined the newly formed Somaliland National Movement and was the leader of its Military wing where he trained and led SNM fighters on many operations against the SNA.[5]

References

  1. ^ 37. Somalia/Somaliland (1960-present).
  2. ^ Horn of Africa Volume 13, Issue 2 1990. p. 53
  3. ^ Lewis, I. M. (1994). Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society. The Red Sea Press. ISBN 978-0-932415-93-6.
  4. ^ Division, Library of Congress (Wash ) Federal Research; Division, Library of Congress Federal Research (1993). Somalia: A Country Study. The Division. ISBN 978-0-8444-0775-3.
  5. ^ African Defence Journal Issues 113-124, 1990 pp.18


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