Remember Fahad said Mahad Salaad "IS" Al Shabaab and HSM's pick of him as NISA head signified a "marriage of convenience" between Dam Jadeed and Shabaab.
I was looking at a writing about the Ceel Cadde 1998 conference in Gedo which saw the famous accord initiated by Marehan traditional leaders for pressuring an end to fighting in the region between the SNF and Al Itihad (Itixaad).
They sourced the book Cadowkeennu Waa Kuma written before this decade.
Well something stood out to me;


JAMAAL XASSAN SAREEY WAS A HIGH RANKING AL ITIXAAD MEMBER, SO HIGH HE WAS ONE OF THEIR MAIN REPRESENTATIVES AMONG THE SIGNATORIES.
That notation isn't remarkable on its own, but Jamaal Xassan Sareey having been a high ranking member in Al Itixaad who then becomes the guy named by Mahad Salaad as NISA COMMANDER IN GEDO following the assassination of Bakaal Kooke allegedly by Al Shabaab who then turns out to be a highly problematic pick whose tenure then sees creeping rise of Shabaab attacks and insecurity in Gedo Region including the first suicide attack attempts in the middle of Dollow town [unsuccessfully of course having been thwarted by ENDF].
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, what else can it be...???