The Somali warlord, Hussein Aideed, finally has been jailed over a debt in Kenya.
The article correctly mentions he is the son of the former Somali dictator General Mohamed Farah Aideed. It mentions also Hussein Aideed is a US citizen and served with the US Marines. What it does not reveal is that Hussein Aideed served with those Marines in Somalia trying, in vain, to catch his father - the former dictator invariably would slip away just before the US forces showed up to capture him.
Hussein Aideed has admitted in subsequent interviews to being in almost daily contact with his father during his tour in Somalia. The correlation would seem pretty obvious, then. Perhaps the military commanders thought it a coincidence he could speak Somali and bore the same name as the man they were trying to catch?
Posted by toby at May 21, 2004 11:42 AM