Ibrahim Hassan Adow
Ibrahim Hassan Adow | |
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| إبراهيم حسن عدو | |
| Died | December 3, 2009 Hotel Shamo, Mogadishu |
| Cause of death | Suicide bombing by Al-Shabaab |
| Nationality | Somali |
| Alma mater | The American University |
| Occupation | Foreign Secretary Islamic Courts Union Foreign Secretary Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia Education Minister of Transitional Federal Government |
| Organization(s) | Islamic Courts Union, Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia and Transitional Federal Government |
Ibrahim Hassan Adow (Somali: Ibraahin Xasan Caddoow, Arabic: إبراهيم حسن عدو) (died December 3, 2009) was a Somali scholar and politician. He was the dean of Benadir University.
Adow became the head of the Foreign Affairs department for Islamic Courts Union as it rose to power during the early 2000s. He later worked in the same role for the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia during the Ethiopian military occupation. He later served the Minister of Education for Transitional Federal Government.
He was assassinated during the 2009 Hotel Shamo attack carried out by an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber.