[2] Fadil was the first Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander of the Somali Armed Forces (SAF), and was a senior member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC).

[4] In the 1970s Abdullah Mohamed Fadil and Muhammad Ali Samatar advised President Barre to select top Frunze graduates to lead the campaign in Ogaden against Ethiopia to liberate Somali territories and restore the greater Somalia.

Fadil and Samnatar trusted their college mates, the top graduates of Frunze Military Academy in Moscow (Военнаяакадемия им М. В. Фрунзе), an elite Soviet institution reserved for the most qualified officers of the Warsaw Pact armies and their allies to lead the Ogaden Campaign.

( Galaal became Minister of Public Works and Leading member of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party) Col. Ali Isamil and Col. Abdulrahman Aare Degeh-Bur Front.

(Later chosen to reinforce the Harar campaign) Top Somali officials, Fadil, Samantar, among others were targeted for clan reasons as documented by Sica and Kapteijns.