Mohamed Farrah Aidid
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Somalian military officer
Why Is Mohamed Farrah Aidid Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mohamed Farrah Hassan Garad, known as General Aidid or Aideed 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 brigadier general in the Somali National Army. He would eventually become chairman of the United Somali Congress , and soon after the Somali National Alliance . Along with other armed opposition groups, he succeeded in toppling President Siad Barre's 22 year old regime following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991.
