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The high American casualty rate of the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu on 3-4 October 1993, led UNOSOM to cease its four month long mission. [4] In 1995, Aidid declared himself president of Somalia. [5] He was killed the following year in Mogadishu on 1 August 1996, aged 61.
Nov 10, 2021 · Mohamed Farrah Aidid was wounded in the battle but not killed immediately. He died from a heart attack a month later, in August 1996, while undergoing surgery for the wound.
Aug 2, 1996 · Published: Aug 2, 1996, 12:00 a.m. MDT. View Comments. By Associated Press. Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the militia leader who helped draw Somalia into years of civil war, famine and virtual anarchy and whose forces killed 18 U.S. soldiers trying to hunt him down, has died.
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Almost right away, militias led by the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid began attacking and killing U.N. peacekeepers. On October 3 and 4, 1993, U.S. forces set out on a snatch-and-grab...
May 1, 2024 · The attempt to capture him led to many deaths—in the Battle of Mogadishu (October 3–4, 1993), for example, 18 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of Somali militia fighters and civilians were killed—and foreign troops were withdrawn. He then intensified his campaign against his rivals, but he reportedly died of a heart attack after being wounded in battle.
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Aug 3, 1996 · Mohammed Farah Aidid, the Somali clan leader whose fighters humiliated United States forces trying to arrest him in 1993, has died, his colleagues reported yesterday, apparently from wounds...
Aug 2, 1996 · MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's most infamous warlord, General Mohamed Farrah Aidid, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack, after being injured by a bullet last week. Aidid and his armed...
