Abdirahman Mahmud Farah Janaqow is a Somali leader, and he was deputy chairman, and a member of the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia (ICU). He and other leaders signed a capitulation of Mogadishu on 27 December 2006 after military losses. However they continued military resistance to the south. Janaqaw was falsely reported to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike on 8 January 2007 in the Battle of Ras Kamboni. He is a member of the Murusade clan. He later served as the Minister of Justice for the Somali government.