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Every once in a while, you come across an article in the news that makes you check the date, to see if it is, in fact, April 1st.
One such article in the BBC covers the use of pigeons to deliver explosives and biological weapons on suicide missions. "A thousand pigeons each with a two ounce explosive capsule, landed at intervals on a specific target, might be a seriously inconvenient suprise", they quote. The plan was abandoned, however, after "MI5 branded Rayner [a pigeon enthusiast advocating the project] a 'menace in pigeon affairs'" and scrapped development of a 400-pigeon aviary.
You just can't make this stuff up.
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?