Ka kammala wannan magana: A shekara ta 1970, ya sake samun wani tallafin karatu na soja don nazarin tankuna a Masar. Hadi ya kwashe shekaru hudu masu zuwa a Tarayyar Soviet yana nazarin jagorancin soja. Ya rike mukamai da dama na soja a rundunar sojin Kudancin Yemen har zuwa 1986, lokacin da ya tsere zuwa Arewacin Yemen tare da Ali Nasser Mohammed, shugaban Kudancin Yemen, bayan da bangaren Ali Nasser na Jam'iyyar Socialist Jam'iyyar Yemen ta rasa iko.
Yaƙin basasa na 1986.