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...earlier incarnation, Aidid was - and some say still is - commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen who became a U.S. Marine in 1987 and served in Somalia in 1992, Aidid succeeded his father, Mohammed Farrah Aidid, as leader of a Saad clan militia after he was killed in 1996. In 1993, it was the elder Aidid's faction that killed 18 U.S. troops in a bloody Mogadishu street battle made famous by the book and movie Black Hawk Down. Today, by virtue of the clan power...
...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps
Time for a Family Chat Re Joe Klein's "A father's inadvertent wisdom" [Dec. 4]: There appears to be an elephant in the living room of the Bush household. When Daddy can't discuss Iraq with his son because the son is in denial and Daddy doesn't want the son to feel grief, we have a gravely dysfunctional family. The only solution is an intervention not only by the son's immediate family but by our elected representatives as well. Please, Daddy Bush, gather the family and have that talk with your son. Marianne Ellis Sacramento, California...
...standing. None of us had to blow up the 20,000 balloons due to be given out to the crowd; that task went to other people with more capacious lung power ... no, actually they use pumps. But we were on duty for nearly eight hours, as the elves in Father Time's workshop...
...earlier incarnation, Aidid was - and some say still is - commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen and a Marine who served in the first Gulf War, Aidid was a successor to his father, Mohammed Farah Aidid, the warlord who battled American troops in the Somalian capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this...