i think he was the only somali with an agenda. He wanted to rule and kill all who didn't bow to him.
He successfully wipped somali asses from Hargeisa to Baydhabo
and forced the british to use their first air assault on him.
He stood up to the british and and the Italians.
It was in Somaliland in 1920 that the RAF first employed the concept of air control. Since 1899, the British colonial government had experienced difficulties there from the forces of Sayyid Muhammad Ibn Abdulla Hassan, disparagingly referred to as the "Mad Mullah." Sayyid Muhammad, a popular teacher and apostle of the "fiercely ascetic" Salihipa sect, was an outspoken critic of British imperialism. His frustration peaked, and he declared a jihad against British rule when the colonial administration permitted the establishment of a Roman Catholic school in the capital, Berbera.10
From 1903 to 1914, a series of half-hearted campaigns against the mullah was unsuccessful. He avoided pitched battles and drew imperial forces deep into the Somali desert.11 The outbreak of World War I distracted British attention and for four years allowed the mullah and his followers a degree of the autonomy they sought. At war's end, Sir Geoffrey Archer, the governor of Somaliland, claimed that the mullah's independence was a slap in the face to Britain and set a bad precedent for the rest of its empire.
In early 1919, Britain's War Office sent Maj Gen Sir Reginald Hoskins, commander in chief, East Africa, to Somalia to plan a campaign to resolve the situation once and for all. When the British government ruled that Hoskins's plan was too expensive, Royal Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard proposed a plan that relied on the RAF to attack the mullah's forces. Trenchard's plan combined aerial punishment with ground-based "mopping-up" attacks by camel-mounted levies.12
On 20 January 1920, the RAF delivered a payload of pamphlets, which outlined the British ultimatum, to the mullah's headquarters in Medishe.13 The next day the bombing began in dramatic fashion when the mullah dressed himself in new robes and seated himself under a white canopy in defiance of British demands. The initial bombing attack reportedly killed the mullah's uncle (who was standing next to him under the canopy) and singed the mullah's own clothing.14
Convinced of the seriousness of British intentions, the mullah fled, leading British air and ground forces on a wild-goose chase across the Somali outback.15 The campaign lasted three weeks and ultimately succeeded in dispersing the mullah's forces. Although immediate military objectives were not achieved--the mullah himself escaped to Ethiopia, where he died the following year--the RAF could claim that in a period of 21 days it had solved a problem that had eluded the army for 21 years.16 The concept of air control was born.