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Adan 'Abdulle engineered the split that gave rise to the Greater Somali League

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aliases@lewis_modern_1980, loc. 411

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Adan ‘Abdulle engineered the split that gave rise to the Greater Somali League

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Much of the credit for this successful manœuvre, which involved maintaining the support of both the Darod and Hawiye wings of the League, appears to lie with Adan ‘Abdulle, later to become Somalia’s first President. Faced with this defeat, Haji Muhammad Husseyn, who enjoyed a formidable reputation as an orator and who had in the past played an important part in the development of Somali nationalism, struck out on his own to form a new militant party called the Greater Somali League. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 411 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Two months later he announced the formation of a new party, the Greater Somali League. A not insignificant number of SYL members from the rank and file shifted their loyalty to the new party, but all key personalities remained in the SYL. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 358 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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  • XREF: connects to: Haji Mohamed Hussein founded the Greater Somali League as his splinter party; Expelled from the League, Haji Muhammad founding the Greater Somali League. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 411; The ousted SYL president founded the Greater Somali League — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 358

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