     XIIRANE | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 01:47 am
"Hargeisa (Rep)- An SNM statement issued on last Saturday has accused Abdi Qasim Salad of taking part in the atrocities committed
against the people of Somaliland. Salad served in dictator Siyad Barre's government for at least 19 years. During his position as Minister
of Interior tens of thousands of Somalilanders were massacred by the military government of dictator Barre. Salad has also been widely
accused of masterminding the assasination of Col. Abdul-Qadir Kosar, a former SNM chairman in Mustahil in 1986.
The caydh tribe to which Salad belongs has been responsible for the killing of over 500 Isaaks in and around Mogadishu, since the
collapse of Siyad Barre regime in Jan. 1991. The SNM led the largest and most effective guerrilla organisation that fought the Siyad
Barre regime. Its decade long guerrilla campaign culminated in bringing down Siyad Barre's regime on Jan. 1991. The USC was
founded one year before Barre's downfall."
In other paper he was accused of corruption during the Siad Barre regim as he managed to take some 15 000 000 $, from a money donated by the president of Abu Dhabi. And Siad had to go all the way to Abu Dhabi to apologize to the Abu Dhabi.??? |
| DAACUUNKA-SOMALIA | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 01:50 am
Why the Political Marriage between Ina Salad Boy and Ina Khalif Galaydh
Issue 127, Sept.2, 2000
Abdiqassim Salad alias Ina Salad Boy, the man who was hand-picked by Djibouti's Ismail Omer Gelleh to be installed as President for
the now defunct state of Somalia and Ali Khalif Galaydh, Boy's choice to become Prime Minister, worked together during the seventies
and eighties in the Somali Ministry of Industries, embezzling millions of dollars in foreign aid. Salad Boy was his minister. The sugar
factory project was established with funds from oil rich Arab governments including Kuwait and the UAE. Equipment for the factory
were purchased from a company called Copper Agriculture. It turned out later that Abdiqassim Salad Boy and Ali Khalif Galaydh had
swindled the sugar factory project of over USD 25 million.
The equipment and all the other installations erected at Mareeray happened to be second hand. Despite showing an initial displeasure
with the way that a substantial amount of the project funds was used, the Arab funding agencies however continued releasing more
money to get the factory operational at any cost before the end of 1977.
This schedule was however never met and more millions ended up in the pockets of Ina Salad Boy and Ali Khalif Galaydh. The
president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan got so disappointed that he ordered a freeze on UAE
donated funds. The action prompted dictator Barre to fly to Abu Dhabi to beg Zayed for releasing the remaining allocated money. The
flow of earmarked funds resumed to the delight of Salad and Galaydh who both, according to former sugar industry hands, netted at
least 25 million dollars for themselves from the project funds. The sugar factory was partially inaugurated in 1980.
In the early eighties, Ali Khalif Galaydh, who married a Marehan lady by the name of Habiba ••••• in order to receive the blessings of
the Marehan born dictator Barre, became Somalia's new Minister of Industry. It had been widely reported at the time that Galaydh who
is from Somaliland's region of Sool made at least 80 (eighty) million dollars in kick backs and direct embezzlement of public funds. In
1983 he claimed of having defected the regime of Siyad Barre and went to the United States to seek asylum. Ever since Galaydh used
to live in the US. Since the down fall of Barre, Ali Khalif had been using his handsome cash deposits in the US, the UAE and Djibouti
to finance a political come back. As a facade, Galaydh had established during the last few years business ventures in Somaliland,
Somalia and Djibouti.
Salad Boy served dictator Siyad during much of his 21 years reign in the former Somalia. Because his father was killed by a
Marehan tribesman, Barre compensated him with a cabinet position for life. It was normal to see during those days Ina Salad Boy
renamed to a ministerial post in every cabinet shake-up. In the process, Salad accumulated a huge financial wealth estimated at
over 100 (one hundred) million dollars, according to former officials of the Siyad Barre government. As Siyad Barre's last Minister
of Interior, Salad was noted for his advocacy of the obliteration of the Isaak population of Somaliland. Over 100,000 (one hundred
thousand) civilians perished in Somaliland as a result of Siyad Barre's genocide campaign against people in the north. Both Ina Salad
Boy and Ali Khalif are friends of Abdirahman Boore, a Djibouti business tycoon with connections with the Corsican and Italian
Mafia. It was Boore who had introduced Galaydh and Salad to Ismail Omer Gelleh several years before the Arta conference has
been contemplated. |
| dawada soomaliya | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 05:28 am
ku mucaaradka,
Ma wax dhaamaad noo haysaan? 10 sano ayaa ka soo wareegtay wali dowlad la'aan ayaan nahay. Waxaad ka sheegaysaan cabdiqaasim oo sida halkan ka muuqata wax cad aydan ku hayninee, SIYAD BARRE ayaa noo dhaami lahaa sida aan maanta ku suganahay. Intaas ma fahmi waydeen. No body cares those things you mentioned here. People wanted a goverment and now they got one alhamdullilah. Dowlad xun ayaa dhaanta maalin qura oo dowlad la'aan ah. Don't waste your time no one cares this, people have bigger problems than the things you are talking about. They stole money? who didn't. and that 20 years ago COME ON PEOPLE! THE WHOLE PEOPLE WERE EATING HARAM, THAT IS WHY GOD DESTROYED US. |
| xayat | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 06:37 am
waxaa meshan ku qorteen qof idinka aqrisnaya male qaraar baa idin haya nimankaa maka masayrsan tihiin war magacoda iska dhiga doqomiin yahay sakiin liqa idinkaa ba tuuga maxaa waxaas oo dhan u kenteen hadaydaan tuug ahayn. |
| Sad-somali | Friday, September 08, 2000 - 08:18 am
This is very Sad indeed the very same people are back to finish whatever is left of Somalia. I hope Aideed does not allow them to establish a coalition of War criminals as the new somali government. Salad should be in Jail he is a Criminal. |
| WADANI | Monday, September 11, 2000 - 05:33 am
Hala qabto Diig yacabka is ku sheegaya Madaxweeynaha somalia. Maxuu kaga duwanyahey siyaad Bare 19 ayuu dowladii siyaad ka talinaayee ???????????? |
