[4] He lived in Sweden for twelve years, most of the time preaching as an Imam at mosque in the Rinkeby district in Stockholm (Swedish: Rinkebymoskén).

Hizbul Islam, an Islamist group then rivaling Al-Shabaab, reportedly targeted him with a road side bomb in February of that year.

[2] Qalaf increasingly split with Godane due to attacks he carried out on Hizbul Islam while its leader, Hassan Dahir Aweys, was negotiating with Al-Shabaab.

[4] During a speech in Mogadishu during January 2011, Qalaf stated that TFG would potentially be able to lead the country, in accordance with sharia (Islamic law), together with Al Shabab.

[10] In May 2013, Fuad Qalaf confirmed that al Shabaab had killed American jihadist Omar Hammami (aka Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki) and several other foreign fighters in Bay region.

[4] In May 2014, Qalaf stated that al-Shabab fighters would carry out jihad, or holy war, in Kenya and Uganda "and afterward, with God's will, to America.

[12] Following al-Shabaab's 2022 invasion into Ethiopia, Major General Tesfaye Ayalew of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) claimed to have killed Qalaf[13][14] in an airstrike on 29 July 2022.