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Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Somali: Xuseen Maxamed Faarax Caydiid, Arabic: حسين محمد فارح عيديد) (born August 16, 1962) is the son of General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. His father was leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) , the organization that fought US forces in Mogadishu , through his death on August 2, 1996, after ...
- 1987–1995
- Somali National Alliance (SNA)
Nov 10, 2021 · Aidid's faction became known as the United Somali Congress (USC) in 1991. Meanwhile, his son, Hussein Farrah Aidid, was busy serving in the United States Marine Corps during Desert Storm....
May 13, 2021 · by Julian Pecquet on May 13, 2021. A US-educated son of the Somali warlord who battled American forces in the famous Black Hawk Down confrontation of 1993 has hired a US consulting firm to build support in Washington for his run for the country’s presidency.
Hussein Mohamed Farrah, son of General Aidid, emigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old. Staying 16 years in the country, he eventually became a naturalized citizen and later a United States Marine who served in Somalia.
- 1960–1996
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...
Aug 21, 2023 · After being wounded in battle, Mohamed Farrah Aidid died in 1996, and his powerful Habr Gedir clan declared his son their leader, at age 33. He left his $9 an hour California job and returned to Somalia, where he “assumed control of his father’s militia, inherited a vast swath of territory and became one of Somalia’s most powerful ...
Biography. Born in Beledweyne, Farrah is a son of Mohamed Farrah Aidid and is sometimes known as Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Hussein Aidid [4] or Aidid Junior. [5] . He emigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old, [6] and attended Covina High School, Covina, California, graduating in 1981. United States military service.
