Abdilqadir Ali Omar (Somali: Cabdiqadir Cali Cumar, Arabic: عبد القادر علي عمر) is a Somali politician and scholar who served as vice chairman of the Islamic Courts Union.
Abdilqadir remained in Somalia during the Ethiopian military occupation to manage ICU insurgents.
[1] He later served as Minister of Interior of the Transitional Federal Government.
Omar, born in the Adado district of the Galgaduud region in central Somalia, grew up in Mogadishu, where he completed his secondary education.
In March 2009, Omar was wounded in a bombing carried out by Al-Shabaab while serving as TFG Minister of Interior Affairs.