''In the mid 1960's, the rebellion in Bale influenced the refugees in Somalia when Haj Yissehak and Waqo Gutu went to Somalia with hundreds of armed men.
It was this time that a meeting was held to discuss ways and means of forming a strong liberation front.
The Somali authorities also played a role in this meeting and volunteered to offer help.
The offer was to help the front if it adapts the name ''Somali Abbo Liberation Front.''
That would help the Somali government annex lands held by the Oromos and ethnic Somalis of the Ogaden.
But there was a split. Waqo Gutu accepted the offer to call his front the ''Somali Abbo Liberation Front'' in an effort to receive military and financial assistance.
But other leaders including Jarra Abba Gadaa rejected the offer and left the meeting.
They did not want to be used by the Somali president siad barre for his motives.''
[The Diary of Terror: Ethiopia 1974 to 1991
By Dawit Shifaw, Page 13]
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