Somali warlord seeks to renew ties to U.S.

Washington TImes ^ | 4/24/02 | Ron Kampeas

[Enemy Of The State]

For Hussein Farrah, the summer of 1996 started with a future rooted in the Los Angeles suburbs: a job with a local council plotting roads, married life interrupted by stints with Marine Reserves buddies.

By October, he had added Aidid to his name and had led thousands of followers in a Somali stadium celebrating the killings three years earlier of 18 American soldiers hunting his father.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bttt

[Deb]

The Ahdid story is really one of the weirdest. One minute he's a pocket-protecter-wearing, computer nerd living in the San Fernando Valley and the next he's a Somali warlord.

And the guys he worked with didn't know a thing about who he really was, but then if my Dad had been responsible for the bloody deaths of 18 American soldiers in Somalia, I doubt I'd mention it at the food cart.

I'm glad to know he's okay and is attempting to change the direction of his country...although I think he still owes one of the guys in the office $20 from a football pool.

[Slam]

Truth is stranger than Fiction.