Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir
Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir, (aka "Mr. Fix It") is a Somali journalist and civil servant. He was also the campaign manager for Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in 2017 elections. After the elections he was appointed Chief of Staff for Villa Somalia and then Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Agency. Mohamed subsequently appointed him as his National Security Advisor. Background. Both Yasin and his step-father were members of the organization Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an organization which was affiliated with Al-Qaeda and was based in Somalia. According to Garowe Online Yasin participated in  battles in the 1990's in Gedo, Arare and Bosaso, but 'he was not a fighting soldier' according to BBC sources. Yasin's parents divorced when he was four years old and his mother later married Abdulkadir Gardheere, who was of the Marehan clan. Gardheere was killed in 1997 by Ethiopian forces fighting in Beled Hawo. In the 1990's Yasin was living in Utanga refugee camp in Kenya for several years. During this time he served as an imam in Abu Dujana mosque. He is said to have furthered his religious studies at El Iman University in Yemen and  in Pakistan. Career in Journalism. In the early 2000's he began writing for SomaliTalk, a website which was then owned by Al-itihaad al Islamiya. Yasin was a critic of both the Abdiqasim and the Abdullahi Yusuf Transitional Federal Governments. At one point he interviewed TFG President Abdi Qasim Salad Hassan. Yasin worked for Wadah Khanfar, the chief editor for Al Jazeera, as a religious tutor to his children, before returning to Mogadishu to work as a journalist for Al Jazeera Arabic from 2005 to 2011. He interviewed Sheikh Hassan Turki, the leader of Ras Kamboni. In 2014 he  joined Jazeera Research Center. Election campaign manager. Yasin is said by some commentators to be involved in helping to get Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected as the President of Somalia in the 2012 Somali presidential election, by securing money from Qatar that allowed him to buy enough votes for victory. He rejected an appointment to the position of Minister of Ports and Marine Transport, on 27 January 2015 by Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. Yasin successfully led the election campaign for Mohamed in the 2017 presidential election. Somali Civil service. Chief of Staff at Villa Somalia. After winning the elections , Mohamed appointed Yasin to the position of the Chief of Staff for Villa Somalia on 31 May 2017. NISA. Mohamed appointed Yasin as deputy director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency on 16 August 2018, during a reshuffling of his security chiefs. Yasin served as the acting head of the agency during ten months of his tenure. After the assassination of Abdirahman Omar Osman, the Mayor of Mogadishu, Farmaajo appointed Yasin as head of NISA on 22 August 2019. According to Garowe Online Yasin was one of the main co-ordinators behind the top-secret deployment of around 5,000  Somali military recruits to Eritrea, some of whom are said to have been sent to on to Ethiopia to fight in the Tigray war, according to a UN report. The recruits themselves were falsely told that they were going for training in Qatar, and their families began a campaign for information as to their whereabouts, after over a year of no contact from them. In April 2021, Yasin travelled to Ethiopia to request Ethiopian National Defence Force troop be deployed to Mogadishu, but Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed refused the request. On 6 September 2021, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble  suspended Yasin over a matter relating to the murder of Ikran Tahlil Farah, a NISA officer. However, soon after Yasin's dismissal, Mohamed published a statement claiming the prime minister's actions to be unconstitutional, saying that Yasin should continue as the head of NISA. Ikran's mother subsequently filed charges against Yasin for 'orchestrating murder' at the Somali military court. On 8 September 2021, Villa Somalia announced that Yasin had resigned as head of NISA. National Security Advisor to the President. After Yasin's resignation from NISA, Mohamed immediately appointed him as his National Security Advisor. The office of  Somalia's President on 17 September 2021, accused the government of Djibouti of illegally detaining his new National Security Advisor, Yasin. He was flying to Mogadishu from Turkey with a stop in Djibouti. It emerged that Somali government officials had ordered that he be barred from traveling aboard any commercial airliner, due to which he was briefly detained in Djibouti and returned to Somalia aboard a private plane on 21 September 2021.