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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. Two days later, his ...
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 ...
- 1960–1996
Sep 27, 2023 · Johnny Saunderson/Alamy Stock Photo General Mohamed Farrah Aidid during a press conference on Oct. 27, 1993. Army Ranger Shawn Nelson, an M60 gunner on one of the helicopters hovering above the scene, told Bowden that Somali fighters in the streets started shooting at the aircraft just moments into the operation.
- Austin Harvey
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 mission ...
Oct 3, 2023 · The battle occurred on Oct. 3-4, 1993, as a part of Operation Gothic Serpent. The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command deployed personnel under Task Force Ranger to Somalia to kill or capture ...
Oct 16, 2023 · In April 1993, a Somalian warlord named General Mohamed Farrah Aidid took control of the country and began to use starvation as a weapon in the civil war-torn African country. He is believed to ...
Oct 2, 2023 · 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, were his prime concern ...
