Hassan Dahir Aweys (, ) (born 1935) is a
Somali political figure who was added to the U.S. government's list of terrorists in 2001. Aweys was the head of the 90-member
shura council of the
Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of
Somalia and was viewed as one of the more radical leaders of the Union, which promoted
shari'a and directed the militias that took control of the Somali capital of
Mogadishu in June 2006. An eight-member executive committee was headed by the more moderate
Sharif Ahmed, although the BBC stated that he was the "real power" of the organization. Aweys resigned from the ICU on 28 December 2006, at the
end of ICU rule in Mogadishu.