Fuad Qalaf

Fuad Mohamed Qalaf (Somali: Fu'aad Maxamed Khalaf, Arabic: فؤاد محمد خلف; born 28 March 1965), also known as Fuad Shangole, is a Somali-Swedish militant who is a senior member of Al-Shabaab.

Working as a cleric in Sweden during the 90s and early 2000s, he returned to Somalia in 2004 and eventually became a senior figure within the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). Following the collapse of the ICU during the Ethiopian invasion of 2006 he fled Somalia but returned to become a top official within Al-Shabaab. Qalaf was the first senior Al-Shabaab official to publicly criticize the groups leader Ahmed Abdi Godane. In 2012, the United States government put out a bounty on Qalaf.

Presently he holds a seat on Al-Shabaab's Shura Council and is believed to head the groups operations in Puntland state. He helped lead al-Shabaab's invasion of Ethiopia during 2022.