Haber Gedir clan looking to the United States

Two representatives of the Haber Gedir clan resident in Virginia (USA) – the intellectual Mohamoud Iman Adan and the former ambassador Ali Hassan Gulaid - hired the Washington legal firm Steven M. Schneebaum PC(SMS) on 16 December to help them in their legal fight against the American government. They plan to claim against the US government on behalf of their clan for compensation due to the US Operation Michigan military intervention in Somalia in 1993. According to them, Washington will have to channel the damages via NGOs created for this purpose to avoid any possibility of embezzlement. But especially, they demand that the USA also promote the aims of the Haber Gedir clan and defend its efforts to support the Mogadishu government.

The two lawyers in the American practice hired, Arin Melissa Brenner and Steven M. Schneebaum, will each receive an advance payment of $20,000 followed by two more payments of the same amount during 2015. More importantly, in the event that their legal action is successful, they will get 15% of the sums awarded in compensation to the Haber Gedir clan by the American government. Schneebaum is no newbie in Somalia; he was involved in gathering information in 2010 for legal proceedings against the regime of the late Mohamed Siad Barre in Somalia, for its alleged violence.

Source : the Indian Ocean News letter