Mail Online
Saturday, May 24, 2008

Mohamed Warsame Nur ‘Darwiish’, who has been accused of war crimes in conflict-ravaged Somalia, was employed through an agency to drive trucks and pack peas at the supermarket giant’s depot near Daventry, Northants, until late 2006.

Now he is General Darwiish, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Somali equivalent of the CIA, which is responsible for detaining and interrogating terrorist suspects.

The agency is accused of unlawfully imprisoning and torturing hundreds of citizens and launching many other repressive security operations.

An investigation by The Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine and a Channel 4 Dispatches programme discloses that his family still live in subsidised housing in Leicester.

The investigation found that he is one of several Somali leaders linked to allegations of war crimes who have close links to Britain.

Some members of the Somali government are believed to have even been given British citizenship, state benefits and a subsidised home in this country.

All regularly commute between Somalia and their homes in Britain, where their families remain while they fight for the UK-backed President, Abdullahi Yusuf, who is accused of waging a tribal war.

The president himself has links to Britain – in 1996, his life was saved by a liver transplant at London’s Cromwell Hospital. He comes back for regular check-ups, staying with relatives in Kilburn, North-West London.

Somalia’s deputy police chief, Ahmed Hashi Tajir, originally from the Netherlands, spent six years living in Birmingham, where he worked for a car parts firm.

His family remain in Spark Hill in Birmingham, where they receive child tax credit because his police salary – which is also subsidised by Britain, via a UN programme – is low.

He said: ‘I was in Birmingham for six years. It is more open than Holland. England more open, yeah. And I was getting very, very good pay – £1,500 every four weeks.

Plus attendance allowance. Plus quality bonus. Plus child tax credit.’

Former Somali interior minister Mohamed Guled Ga’amadheere is a British citizen, with a home and family in Leytonstone, East London.

In 2007, he ordered that no international aid was to be distributed without undergoing a government inspection, an action the UN claims unnecessarily obstructed more than a million refugees receiving food and medical care.

The former military chief of staff, the president’s spokesman and others are also thought to have families and homes in the UK.

Source: Mail Online, May 24, 2008

laylasamatar @ 5/28/2008 12:30 AM EST  dadka kaliya ee shaqada cayda u yaqaan waa hawiye.  At least darlings they didn't sit on their back side getting busy in how to make many of the benefit system.  And by the wya did you realise that god iyo dadkiisuba hawiya nacebyihiin, the evil doers in this world.  they can only kill, steel and destroy.  They tried and tried and tried to build a government so many times but don't realise that god is not with them!!!!!

laylasamatar @ 5/27/2008 8:08 PM EST  you might be better off borrowing a brain from somewhere, somehow because this is not working at all, not for you at least!!!!

laylasamatar @ 5/27/2008 8:05 PM EST  I like this knew phrases (war crimes, genocide) wasn't in the dictionary before...was recently invented by hawiye & co.  they claim to care about Somali and Somalis, yet envy they are destroying Somali name abroad as they did destroy Somalia.  They don't care about who gets attacked or hurt as a result.  As far as I know, it could be one of their children, just watch the space sometime soon in the streets of London!!!

diinow @ 5/26/2008 7:05 PM EST  Arrey naagtaan caraweelaahu xey eheed xaasidsanaa??? Yohow mawaadan hooyo eheeen oo aadan kanexeen caruurta somaaliyeed oo darwiish xamar ku xasuuqaayo? Walaahi oohin aan iska celihaayay mugaan fiirsahaayay Channal4's program "dispatches"

momo519 @ 5/26/2008 6:52 PM EST  Xinfinin, NYT doesnt work the African way!