Siyad Barre knew A Yusuf like the back of his hand

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I see a lot of revisionism in that article. Im not Abdullahi yusuf (AUN) supporter but that writer is rewriting history..at no point/time did hawiye welcomed him into mogdisho...heck, he was living one year in jowhar before he moved to baidhabo...tfg didnt had the force to defeat the warlords and capture xamar and when icu came into power they were considered terrorist by the west, that is why the west funded ethiopia to fight with them.
And that nonsense about massacring hawiye is bs..most of his armies and supporters were hawiye from gedi, jeele to caydid... unless they were with him and agreed to be part of that mission.

People forget that it was a western plan for Ethiopia to send the troops to Somalia. As Wikileaks has revealed, even Meles himself was not fond of the idea at first, but was threatened by Jendayi Frazer with the Ethiopian Democracy Accountability Act in the US Congress - where she reminded him that if he doesn't send the troops, that bill would pass and all US economic and military aid would be cut. Meles sent the forces due to that dictation from Washington.

The people who run with the revenge charge against A. Yusuf are emotional pricks who knew nothing about the man. He wanted to rule Somalia and restore a state he leads. Here you had a Hawiye pm and many other leaders, and wouldn't go along with any massacre against their own people. The story makes no sense at all.

Additionally, it was not Melez and Ethiopia who forced A. Yusuf's resignation; it was Jendayi Frazer who told him that it was a US policy for him to resign with additional measures against him if he didn't comply. The West never supported him in the first place, and the proof is how the US Embassy in Nairobi was funding the warlords in Mogadishu when they founded the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism in 2006. The Americans officials in Nairobi did not go through the TFG led by A.Yusuf in Baidoa, but directly dealt with the warlords. When that plan miserably failed and resulted the warlords being thrown out of Southern Somalia, that was when they unleashed the Ethiopian military with western air power while using the TFG as a cover.

It seems this Awil guy is grasping at straws by publishing those fairy tales. Reasonable people can see how it has no basis on facts.