Word: aidid
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...chaos. In the 1980s his headquarters were in the Sudan while that country was in the throes of civil war. When Sudan threw him out, he relocated to the rubble of Afghanistan. In 1993 bin Laden sent some of his top aides to support the Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It was Aidid's forces that later killed 18 U.S. servicemen in an extended fire fight, the one described in the book and film Black Hawk Down...
...food in a starving land had been withdrawn. The U.N. peacekeeping force on the ground was essentially impotent to intervene in the clan warfare that had brought the country well over the edge of chaos. The most powerful of the clans was the Habr Gadir, led by Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It became American policy to arrest him and the clan's other leaders and subdue its "militia...
...hard time getting the attention of the brass leading conventional forces--they operated under very restrictive rules during the Gulf War--and they have had their setbacks. A Delta Force team was chewed up in the streets of Mogadishu in 1993, when it tried to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid. And in Afghanistan, where the terrain is about as unforgiving as any on earth, and the population as warlike, they won't be able to hold territory for long...