Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali Warabe

Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali Warabe (1991 – December 2017) was a Finnish Muslim of Somali descent who left Finland for Syria to join then the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He was reported to have been killed in December 2017.

Life and death Sayid had Finnish citizenship and lived in Espoo.

Sayid joined ISIL, and he and his wife's two children were born in Syria. urging Finnish Muslims to join, using the name Abu Shuayb as-Somali. His cousin, the son of his maternal uncle, also left Leppävaara for Syria. His cousin, who also appeared in an ISIL propaganda video, was killed in June 2014.

In an interview with YLE in 2014, Sayid's father, Somaliland politician Faysal Ali Warabe, said his son's decision to become a jihadist had shocked and disappointed him and that he blamed himself for having been an absent father during his son's early years. He urged Muslim parents to monitor what their children were doing at the mosque and online.

In January 2018, Warabe reported that his daughter-in-law had contacted him over WhatsApp told him Sayid had been killed in an airstrike on December 29, 2017. He said his son had been trying to leave Syria and return to Finland with his wife and children at the time he was killed, having realized it was a “mistake” to join ISIL.