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    Mohamed Farrah Aidid

    Somalian military officer

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  1. Mohamed Farrah Hassan Garad, known as General Aidid or Aideed ( Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Garaad, 'Caydiid Garaad'; Arabic: محمد فرح حسن عيديد; 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996), was a Somali general and diplomat. Educated in both Rome and Moscow, he served as a chief in the Italian colonial police force and later as a ...

  2. Nov 10, 2021 · Mohamed Farrah Aidid was one of Somalia's most dangerous and aggressive warlords. He was instrumental in the overthrow of communist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. After the ouster of Barre,...

  3. May 1, 2024 · Role In: Somalia intervention. Muhammad Farah Aydid (born c. 1930, Beledweyne, Italian Somaliland—died Aug. 1, 1996, Mogadishu, Somalia) was a Somali faction leader. He received military training in Italy and the U.S.S.R. and served in posts under Mohamed Siad Barre (1978–89) before overthrowing him in 1991. He became the dominant clan ...

  4. 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...

  5. Aug 12, 1996 · One of the many oddities in this battered capital is that a son of Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid, the Somali faction leader who humiliated the United States in 1993, is a naturalized American...

  6. Oct 2, 2023 · Somalia is full of danger.”. The “momentum and boldness” of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the leader of the city’s most powerful clan and the U.N. mission’s chief antagonist, General Meade wrote ...

  7. Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid; Arabic: محمد فرح حسن عيديد; 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996) was a Somali general and diplomat. He was the chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC). Aidid later led the Somali National Alliance (SNA).

  8. Oct 2, 2023 · He was shot in a battle against former allied warlords in July 1996 and died of a heart attack during surgery. Funeral Of General Mohamed Farrah Aidid | Somalian Soldier, Diplomat And Later ...

  9. In 1995, Aidid declared himself president of Somalia. He was killed the following year in Mogadishu on 1 August 1996, aged 61. Mohamed Farrah Hassan Garad, known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali general and diplomat.

  10. Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid was a Somali general and diplomat. Educated in both Rome and Moscow, he served as a chief in the Italian colonial police force and later as a brigadier general in the Somali National Army.

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