Abdikassim Salat Hassan
| Abdiqasim Salad Hassan عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن |
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| 5th President of Somalia | |
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In office August 27, 2000 – October 14, 2004 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ali Khalif Galaydh Osman Jama Ali Hassan Abshir Farah Muhammad Abdi Yusuf |
| Preceded by | vacant (3 January 1997 – 27 August 2000) |
| Succeeded by | Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed |
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| Born |
1 January 1941 Galdogob, Mudug, Italian Somaliland |
| Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Somali: Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan;Arabic: عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن; born on January 1, 1941) is a Somali politician. He was President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004, and previously served as Interior Minister and Finance Minister in the government of Mohamed Siad Barre.
Hassan was born in the town of Galdogob, situated in the north-central Mudug region of the former Italian Somaliland. His family hails from the Habar Gidir sub-clan of the Hawiye.
Hassan pursued his post-secondary education in the USSR, graduating in 1965 from the Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
A key founder of Somalia's Suhl (reconciliation) group of which former Foreign Minister Abdirahman Jama Barre was also a part, Hassan has held several important positions in the Somali government, most notably as Siad Barre's last Interior Minister. As such, Hassan was responsible for all internal security agencies including the National Security Service (NSS), the Investigative Department of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, the police, and the Deputy Prime Ministership.
Additionally, Hassan was the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia in the late 1980s. Abdirahman Jama Barre served opposite him as the 1st Deputy Prime Minister.
After the Barre's administration's ouster in 1991 and the start of the civil war in Somalia, Hassan left for Cairo.
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