Before I leave, let me correct you about one thing...capturing Caabudwaaq had more significance for USC because it was a Marehan deegaan of Siad Bare. Also, the road to Gaalkacyo went through Caabudwaaq. 7 months before the USC attacked Gaalkacyo, they attacked Balanbale and Caabudwaaq and the battle that took place is called "Feero Qumumah". Habar Gidir, especially the Cayr still harbor hate and hidden genocidal thoughts against us because of that battle. Caydiid himself was in the battle and had to flee to the Ethiopian side and towards Feerfeer because Marehan tookover all of Galgaduud in the bacsi and they were in Beled-Weyne with the Xawaadle. The whole reason USC tried to go make base in Gaalkacyo was to try to compress Marehan from the Mogadishu side and the northern side. Your whole history is off which doesn't make me surprised since you presented a SRRC coffe shop talk as wax macquul ah.
"Somalis say that Aideed, whose Habre Gedir militias have suffered several bitter defeats at the hands of the rival Marehan clan in recent weeks in the central regions, has left Mogadishu to personally lead counterattacks.
The town of Belet Huen on the Ethiopian frontier has been captured by the joint Marehan and Hawadle forces, who had lost it to Aideed's forces while the United Nations was still in Somalia last year.
The Habre Gedir have also come under bitter attacks from the Marehan around the remote central town of Dusa Mareb, Somali travellers say." [1]
AFP, January 20, 1993 writes:
"Beledweyne (Belet Uen): 19th January: Forces loyal to ousted Somali dictator Muhammad Siyad Barreh launched an attack north-west of Beledweyne, leaving about 25 dead, according to reports reaching this central Somalia town. The attack by the Somali National Front came near the small town of Matabaan about a week ago, according to Matabaan townsfolk who have deployed mines around it for their defence. Some reports put the death toll up to 30.
The Beledweyne region has been allocated to Canadian forces in Operation Restore Hope, and their commander despatched troops and armoured cars to Matabaan, close to the Ethiopian border. . .
Canadian Lt-Col Carol Mathieu, who visited Matabaan, said he had news of "a major battle" west of Matabaan. According to Aydid's United Somali Congress, the SNF [Somali National Front] made the incursion. Canadian officers believe each side has some 3,000 to 4,000 men with heavy weapons and that the SNF has Soviet-made T-54 or T-55 tanks. The SNF is said to control the border town of Balanballe, further to the north.
Meanwhile, Ethiopian forces have taken control of and sealed off the border town of Ferfer north-west of Beledweyne to try to prevent cross-border movement, witnesses said." [2]
Reuters, 19 January, 1993 writes:
"But rival Habre Gedir and Marehan clan forces fought a fierce battle a week ago at a village 80 km (50 miles) to the north of Belet-Uen and 30 people were reported killed.
"We were told they used armoured vehicles, technicals and mortars," Mathieu said, adding that he had sent 20 armoured cars to patrol the Ethiopian border and prevent more fighting." [3]
And once again in 9 May, 1993:
"The last clan battle in Belet Huen was in January, a week after the Canadians stormed the sand-swept town. Thirty people were killed in the battle between forces of the Habre Gedir and Marehan clans." [4]
Sources:
[1] Reuters (1995)
[2] AFP, January 20, 1993
[3] Reuters, 19 January, 1993
[4] Reuters, 9 May, 1993
