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Death. On 24 July 1996, Aidid and his men clashed with the forces of former allies Ali Mahdi Muhammad and Osman Ali Atto. Atto was a former supporter and financier of Aidid, and of the same subclan. Atto is alleged to have masterminded the defeat of Aidid. Aidid suffered a gunshot wound in the ensuing battle.
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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.
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...
Aug 2, 1996 · The United States withdrew in March 1994, and the final U.N. contingent pulled out a year later. 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.
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...
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Oct 16, 2023 · He is believed to have starved over 300,000 Somali citizens to death by intercepting food supplies and supplements to the desperate population. Later that year, Aidid ambushed and killed 24...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuter) - Somali faction leader Mohamed Farah Aideed, whose militiamen plagued a U.N. peacekeeping force, has died from bullet wounds, aides said on Friday. His death...