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DIED. GENERAL MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID, 62, Somali faction leader; of a heart attack, a week after suffering wounds in a battle against rival warlords in Mogadishu. In 1993 a U.S.-led U.N. peacekeeping mission was marred when an effort to contain Aidid led to the death of 18 American soldiers in a battle with local militiamen...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Presaging a new wave of Somalian violence, the son of a dead Somali warlord took his father's place on Sunday, vowing to preserve the political structure created by his father. Hussein Mohamed Aidid, a former U.S. Marine reservist, served with U.S. forces sent to Somalia in 1992. His father was killed last Thursday. Aidid was named interim president of Somalia by his clan and promptly promised to pacify the troubled nation by eliminating his rivals. Aidid's men killed two gunmen of Ali Madhi's faction Sunday, just days after two other warlords declared a unilateral cease...
More than 18 months after U.S. forces relinquished Somalia to its entrenched warlords, the country is "moving toward all-out war," reports Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis. Sunday, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the warlord whose fighters had attacked U.N. peacekeepers during their failed operation to feed starving Somalis, assaulted Baidoa, a city of 300,000 people northwest of the capitol of Mogadishu. At least 10 people were reportedly killed, and Aidid is now holding 20 foreign aid workers against their will. Baidoa is controlled by a rival warlord, Ali Mahdi Mohamed. "It could just have been a looting...
Well, of course they all have a hand in it, but the black widow at the center of this web of conspiracy turns out to be the United Nations. Which U.N. are they talking about, you might ask? Is this the U.N. that turns and runs before Mohammed Aidid? Or is this the U.N. that stands by wringing its hands as the Bosnian Serb artillery launches rockets into the U.N. head-quarters...
...Washington promised more than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...