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Abdi Abdulla Said, aka Jinni Boqor, a brilliant Somali politician from the Majeerteen sub clan, was born in Gardo district in Bari region of Somalia (now Karkar region) in late 1930's. Abdulle did an MBA in International law and relationship in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1967.

Though he hailed from Gardo area, Abdulle grew up in Garowe were he was popular in his teen years mainly for his brilliance, eloquence, and more importantly his elegance for which he acquired the popular nickname, Jinni Boqor, literally meaning the man with the looks of a king.

At a time when he was serving as the Foriegn Secretary of SSDF, the armed opposition group, Abdulle was shot on the neck while sitting on a chair in front of his own hotel in Nairobi in what seemed to be a failed assassination plotted by the then military government.

Abdulle rose to his prominent status in Somali politics during the civil war, mainly due to his strong liberal views at a time when clan adherance was a doctrine of Somali politics. After failing to persuade Abdullahi Yusuf to negotiate a joint national government with Gen. Aideed, Abdulle stayed behind in Mogadishu and joined Aideed's self declared government assuming finance ministry. He his portfolio he instructed to reprint Somali Shillings for the first time since 1990, a precedent for all faction leaders.

"Your political method is based on fundamentalism. You worship principles. You can never negotiate a solution. Quite the contrary, my political method is liberal. I may discard principles to embrace a mediated solution as long as it is not killing me." Abdulle said in a heated public debate with Ittihadi-esque politicians in Gardo in 2000 answering to a question why he joined Aideed, assuming that he was 'enemy' of the clan.

In 2006, as a lawmaker of the then transitional federal government, Abdulle was a whistleblower of Ethiopian military presence in Baidoa, to which he was very critical. He called the BBC Somali section emminently and said famously "i saw tanks with my bare eyes."