The Sayyid’s assassination of Garad Ali Farah backfired and cost him Dulbahante support

Evidence

Whatever the reasons, the Sayyid’s response when the news leaked out was characteristically prompt. A party of Dervishes was dispatched to assassinate the Garad, an action which turned out to be a miscalculation for it immediately provoked a further substantial withdrawal of Dulbahante support. Indeed, the reaction was so considerable that the Sayyid prudently withdrew to his own paternal kinsmen the Ogaden, where he married a daughter of one of the most prominent elders of the clan. This device of contracting political alliances by marriages was one which he was to employ frequently in the course of his campaign. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 213

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A disputed rifle incident in 1899 triggered the Sayyid’s open defiance of the British.