These foreign powers are money hungry. They want to deal with submissive states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Japan, South Korea. ICU was the complete opposite. They saw the ICU as a grassroots movement that had the potential to turn Somalia into a fully fledged Islamic state. ICU was therefore a threat to them that needed to be discarded asap. Those Somali elders were strictly about Quran and Sunna (Sharia law) etc. ICU would have been difficult to control. Qaddafi and Saddam were difficult and look how they ended up. They were killed off asap. Since Shareefka up untill now these foreign entities have been making sure Somalia is fully “tamed” and ready to do business with. Somalia is now ripe and ready just like Saudi Arabia and Japan right after they got nuked twice.