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    Mohamed Farrah Aidid

    Somalian military officer

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  1. 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.

    • 1960–1996
  2. 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.

  3. 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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  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. Oct 2, 2023 · Mogadishu is not under our control. 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 ...

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  7. 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...

  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. Download our WAAY 31 News and Weather apps. Follow us on Facebook , Instagram ,...

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