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  1. Hussein Farrah Aidid

    Somali warlord and United States Marine

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  1. Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Somali: Xuseen Maxamed Faarax Caydiid, Arabic: حسين محمد فارح عيديد) (born August 16, 1962) is the son of General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. His father was leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), the faction that fought UNOSOM II and US forces during 1993.

  2. Nov 10, 2021 · Hussein Farrah Aidid left the U.S. military in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen shortly after. That same year, his father back in Somalia declared himself president of the country, a...

  3. Jan 4, 2023 · Aidid was an artilleryman, assigned to Battery B, 14th Marines at the Marine Corps Reserve base in Pico Rivera, California. He deployed in support of Operation Restore Hope, the U.S.-led task force in Somalia whose aim was to disrupt the personal army of Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

  4. May 13, 2021 · Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid is a US Marine veteran who served from 1987 through 1995, notably during Desert Storm as well as in Somalia. After leaving the military he succeeded his late father Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid as president in August 1996 but stepped down a year later.

  5. Aug 12, 1996 · His clan elders, meeting behind closed doors, selected the same 33-year-old son, Hussein Mohammed Farah, to become the new president of Mr. Aidid's self-proclaimed republic. It was a strange...

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  7. Almost right away, militias led by the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid began attacking and killing U.N. peacekeepers.

  8. Jan 22, 2007 · The night before, on Oct. 3, 1993, Hussein Mohammed Aidid had watched in horror as television conveyed images of a disastrous U.S. military mission against a Mogadishu warlord. After two Black...

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