In 1941, he joined the British Colonial Army in charge of the Horn of Africa, which was called the King's African Rifles in their third battalion.

[2] After being the head of the Halane military training station, General Adan Gabyow became Minister of Defence under Siad Barre.

[4] In March 1989, soldiers of the Ogaden mutinied in Kismayo, and fighting continued until the government troops gained the upper hand in July.

The defeated SPM were forced to flee south to Kismayo, where they joined up with other disparate Darod who had fled from Mogadishu.

Following this victory Aideed and Jess formed the Somali National Alliance (SNA), combining with the SDM and the SSNM.

Their combined forces managed to push Gabyow and Morgan out of Kismayo, rendering Siad Barre to exile.

As a result of a US-led UN-sanctioned intervention in Somalia, Unified Task Force (UNITAF) took control of Kismayo.

Gabyow had long pointed an accusing finger at Hussein Aideed, son of Aideed who took over his father's position after he was killed in fighting between him and Ali Mahdi, and the Egyptian government for instigating violence in Kismayo, but both the Egyptian authorities and Aidid denied any involvement in the war-torn southern Somali port.

[7] Both General Morgan and Gabyow belong to the powerful Darod clan which felt marginalised by the political dominance of the Hawiye due to the legitimacy the Cairo declaration gave Somalia's two most powerful Hawiye - Hussein Farrah Aideed and Ali Mahdi Muhammad.

[9] Aden Abdullahi Noor "Gabyow", who had been suffering from several illnesses for a while, died on 5 June 2002 in Nairobi the capital city of Kenya, after contracting stroke diseases.

His body was flown to the capital of the Middle Juba region Bu'ale, where he was given a national funeral attended by thousands of people.