National Security Service (Somalia) - Somali Politicians With Ties To The NSS

Somali Politicians With Ties To The NSS

Controversy surrounds the activities of the NSS, as well as those politicians who served in or assisted the NSS during the Barre regime. This is a partial list of Somali politicians who had known or alleged ties to the NSS:

• Abdiqasim Salad Hassan TNG President of Somalia (2001–2004); as Interior Minister under Siad Barre, was head of the NSS.
• Ali Mohammed Ghedi TFG Prime Minister of Somalia (2004–present); alleged agent/informer.
• Hassan Abshir Farah TFG Prime Minister of Somalia (2001–2003), Minister of Fisheries (2004–present); allegedly cooperated with the NSS as regional governor in Barre government.
• Dahir Riyale Kahin President of Somaliland (2003–2010) served as the NSS station chief in Berbera.
• Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud TFG Minister of Finance (2005–present); President of Southwestern Somalia (2002–present); Colonel in the NSS
• Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti since 1999, was reportedly trained by the NSS.
• Mukther Mohmmed Abdurahman Bullbull ARS since 2003 to 2011 reportedly trained by the X NSS

Ethiopian president Meles Zenawi and Eritrean president Isayas Afewerki also had reported contacts to the NSS; according to a Somali government official quoted by IRIN news, Zenawi and Afewerki "lived together in a villa behind Tawfiq Hotel, north Mogadishu, and were handled by the National Security Service, provided with travel documents and Somali passports, trained and given a Tigrayan radio frequency". Zenawi's NSS handler was the father of TFG minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi.