We now know, what breaked Somalia into pieces was the dictators bad and ill advised decision to invade Ethiopia, this against his bigeste allies advice the Soviet union, then when the Somali army was dismantled, he then turned against his own generals and army leaders imprisonening them and assassinating them, why most rebels leaders from Abdullahi Yusuf, Eydiid to Muse bixi are former members of the Somali army, many of them even veterans. Why I would argue we can thank the kacaan for the current condition we are in.. Siyaad Barre did an irreversible damage to the Somali nation, all because he couldn't get himself to pass on the presidential title to someone else who's worthy.