Terrorist in Somalia is what I have read about him.
Ilhan Omar's family was well connected in the country led by the Marxist regime....their family lived in a secure compound in Mogadishu. The family was a privileged family. They escaped Somalia after the fall of Barre. Because they were no longer safe there and would have been put on trial and shot if caught....they hid the fact that they worked for a totalitarian regime or they wuldn't have been allowed into the US.
https://menafn.com/1098974175/Ilhan-Omars-Father-Was-Top-Propaganda-Official-In-Genocidal-Barre-Regime
“Terrorist in Somalia”
He was a propagandist in the bureaucracy of the Siad Barre Regime in Somalia, through the period when they committed the Isaaq genocide (Hargeisa Holocaust).
It included the leveling and complete destruction of the second and third largest cities in Somalia.
Described as “one of the fastest and largest forced movements of people recorded in Africa”, and resulted in the creation of the world’s largest refugee camp at that time (1988).
The scale of destruction led to Hargeisa being known as the ‘Dresden of Africa’.