 After receiving no aid, he went to Somalia to supply himself and other rebels with weapons.In one of the landmark battles at Malka Anna near Ganale River in 1963, the Oromo combatants took down two military helicopters using a non-automatic rifle called Dhombir.Hence, the period from 1963 to 1970 is locally known as the Dhombir war after the gun used by the Oromo fighters.