Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale

Barre Adan Shire
باري ادن شاير
Minister of Defense of Somalia
In office
August 2006 – 2007
Personal details
Born
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Barre Adan Shire (Somali: Barre Aadan Shire, Arabic: باري ادن شاير), also known as Barre Hiiraale, Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire, or Abdikadir Adan Shire, Somali politician, former president of Jubaland state of Somalia. He is the former Minister of Defense of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG). He was previously the TFG Minister for National Reconstruction and Resettlement. Hiiraale was also the chairman of the now defunct Juba Valley Alliance, which controlled Southern and Southwestern Somalia, including the nation's third-largest city, the strategic port town of Kismayo.