[3] Hassan belonged to the Rer Ainanshe sub-division of[citation needed] the Habr Yunis[4] Garhajis clan.

After being released he migrated to Riyadh Saudi Arabia where he and other prominent Isaaq diplomats, politicians and intellectuals would have clandestine meetings with the objective of over throwing the Siad Barre regime.

In early January of 1981 Hassan led a delegation of the saudi group to London that included Abdisalam Yasin, Ahmed Ismail Abdi 'Duksi' and Mohamed Hashi Elmi.

Hassan was the official spokesman of the newly formed group and on 6 April of 1981 he announced the launching of the SNM.

[6][7] After the SNM's successful overthrowing of the Barre regime and the establishment of the republic of Somaliland in 1991, Hassan was among the selected cabinet of Ministers of the Tuur government.