"The matter was aggravated when the body of Shire was mutilated by running horses over it.[35] This was against an Islamic fellow and it enraged the Maxamed Subeer's kinsmen. In retaliation, they planned secretly to kill Sayid Maxamed and his Qusuusi council. The plan known as the Plot of Gurdumi[36] took for many months to plan but at the last minute it was aborted by chance. The Sayid escaped unhurt but one of his closest advisers, a Qusuusi member Aw-Cabbas, fell under the spears of the conspirators. In the resulting fighting, the Darwish gained the upper hand over Maxamed Subeer and inflicted heavy losses. The Darwish retaliated later against the Maxamed Subeer nomads by looting their herds. During the looting, known as Garab-cas, the Maxamed Subeer lineage lost much of their property.
After sometime the Maxamed Subeer lineage sent a peace delegation (ergo), 32 of their most able men, to Sayid Maxamed who had moved with his followers to Dhiito, east of Gurdumi. One of the peace delegations, Cabdi Maxamed Waal, was the husband of Toox-yar Cabdulle Xasan, sister of the Sayid. The plot of Gurdumi was the first attempt on the life of Sayid Maxamed by his kinsmen and it left him psychologically scarred. Rancour induced him to arrest the ergo (peace delegation) and tie them with fetters and anklets. Then he sent a message to the Maxamed Subeer that their men's release was conditional on payment of the blood money (diyo) of Aw-Cabbas, two guns that he lost in the fighting of Gurdumi and a hundred camels for each man.[37] The Maxamed Subeer could not pay three thousand three hundred camels for the release of their relatives as the Darwish had inflicted heavy damage on their property during the Garab-cas pillage. Three deadlines ended without conclusion and at the last deadline Sayid Maxamed ordered the peace delegation to be executed. This enraged Maxamed Subeer and to save themselves from
further reprisals they asked the Abyssinians for help.[38] The killing of a peace mission is one of the worst crimes in pastoral tradition. The act of executing the delegation damaged the reputation of the Darwish, one elder described them as "sick wolves led by a mad sheikh."[39] The event, named after the fetters and anklets tied to the delegation, was another set back to the very cause of the Darwish movement and went down in Somali history as one of the saddest events. The incident forced the Somali clans in the Abyssinian dominated area to ask for help from their centuries' old enemies. A Somali proverb says, "Stones cannot go far but word can,"[40] the news of Gonda-gooye reached the corners of the Somali peninsula very quickly.
A combined force of Abyssinians and Maxamed Subeer Ogaadeen attacked the Darwish, and consequently forced them to flee to the east back into the Nugaal valley, which they had left two years previously after a bloody confrontation with Dhulbahante."
