Cabdullahi Yusuf re-started the Somali state. He insisted that he sit inside Villa Somalia by hook or by crook, as was his right as president. Every single man who opposed him deserved to be killed.
I degrees. There was 2 governments being set at that time one by Djibouti another by Ethiopia, the Ethiopian supported Government prevailed and gained international recognition as Transitional Federal Government (TFG) However, on the ground, the sole organization that held populous support and grassroot legitimacy across much of south Somalia were the Islamic Court Union (ICU) Abdillahi Yusuf was seen as a controversial figure not different from secular Warlord coalition known as ARPCT (Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism) who terrorized central & southern Somalia during the 14 years post Afweyne overthrow. Instead of AY using his position as leader of TFG and the Warlord Alliance to reach a compromise with moderate majority of ICU, he opt for military option calling in Ethiopia to annihilate ICU and thus gave way for Al Shabaab rise Somalia struggles with today. AY himself stepped down after the IC accused him of escalating the Somali civil war and by his own word "I failed to bring peace to Somalia" leaving it in a worse situation that when he first took the reign.
But off course MJ supremacists will never admit this because just like they walked up to Kismayo and capture it without a single bullet they knew it was only a matter of time before ICU would conquer Puntland, than Somaliland unifying the Somali State by force and ending the civil war. AY like any politician put the welfare of his people above the rest of the country, effectively used Ethiopia to thwart ICU threat over his precious state of Puntland even if it meant nuking Hawiye and setting Somalia back to stone age. His successor was ironically the former ICU leader Shiekh Sharif. So Somalia would been better off had AY and SS made peace from the beginning before they both lose legitimacy and Al Shabaab runs Havock. By this time Al Shabaab become the only force fighting Ethiopia and thus won popular support. The defeated former leaders of ICU lost legitimacy for accepting peace and integrating into the TFG. Basically MJ/Puntland are the poisonous dagger in the heart of Somalia that prevents it from ever rising again. Puntland first, Somalia last.