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Mohamed Farrah Aidid

1934 - 1996

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Mohamed Farrah Hasan Garad (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Garaad, 'Caydiid Garaad' ; Arabic: محمد فرح حسن عيديد; 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996), popularly known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali military officer and warlord. He rose to prominence during the Somali Civil War when he led the SNA forces against the UNISOM II forces in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (popularly known as the Black Hawk Down incident) Educated in both Rome and Moscow, he first 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 (USC), and soon after the Somali National Alliance (SNA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Farrah Aidid has received more than 2,697,334 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohamed Farrah Aidid is the 3,615th most popular politician (down from 2,584th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Somalia (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Somali Politician.

Mohamed Farrah Aidid is most famous for being the Somali warlord who led the Somali National Alliance in the Somali Civil War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 3,615 out of 19,576. Before him are Margaret of York, Munmu of Silla, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Sverre of Norway, Rama III, and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Shamshi-Adad V, Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Emperor Houshao of Han, William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and Wied, Prince of Albania.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 60. Before him are Bettino Craxi, John Surtees, Giovanni Battista Re, Jan Švankmajer, Rudolf Schuster, and Alfred Schnittke. After him are Carlo Rubbia, Heng Samrin, Stanislav Shushkevich, Marshall Rosenberg, Édith Cresson, and Lansana Conté. Among people deceased in 1996, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 37. Before him are Solomon Asch, Andreas Papandreou, Gladwyn Jebb, Masaki Kobayashi, Nicu Ceaușescu, and Mohammad Najibullah. After him are Victor Ambartsumian, William Vickrey, António de Spínola, Shūsaku Endō, Claudette Colbert, and Georges Duby.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 2 out of 58. Before him are Waris Dirie (1965). After him are Siad Barre (1919), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Aden Adde (1908), Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), and Abdirashid Shermarke (1919).

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Among POLITICIANS In Somalia

Among politicians born in Somalia, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ranks 1. After him are Siad Barre (1919), Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Muse Bihi Abdi (1948), Aden Adde (1908), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962).

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