Fuad Qalaf

Fuad Mohamed Qalaf (, ; born 28 March 1965), also known as Fuad Shangole, Qalaf was the first senior Al-Shabaab leader to publicly criticize the group's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane. In 2012, the United States put out a bounty on Qalaf.

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

Biography Born in Mogadishu, Qalaf comes from the Harti sub-clan of the wider Darod. As such, he worked to influence young Muslims about Jihad. After the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in December 2006 and the subsequent fall of the ICU-government, Qalaf and other ICU leaders fled the country. In April 2007, he was reported to be living in Kenya. During a speech in Mogadishu during January 2011, Qalaf stated that TFG would potentially be able to lead the country, in accordance with sharia (Islamic law), together with Al Shabab.

In June 2012, the United States government put out its first bounty on Qalaf,

In 2021, the United States government put a $6 million dollar bounty for information that could lead to Qalafs capture. Following al-Shabaab's 2022 invasion into Ethiopia, Major General Tesfaye Ayalew of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) claimed to have killed Qalaf in an airstrike on 29 July 2022. On 3 August, Al Shabaab released a voice recording of Qalaf, who denied Ethiopian forces killed him on July 29. He further stated that al Shabaab would continue to attack the Somali Regional Liyu Police.