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  • Former Somali warlord spoke at Minneapolis City Council candidate’s fundraiser (Black Hawk Down related)

    08/25/2023 2:52:26 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 11 replies
    Minnesota Reformer ^ | 08 21 2023 | Deena Winter
    A Minneapolis City Council candidate held a June fundraiser featuring the scion of a Somali political family whose patriarch was known as a ruthless warlord whose clan-based militias intercepted food shipments and attacked U.N. peacekeepers. The late Mohamed Farrah Aidid was a key player in a 1990 coup, after which Somalia’s government collapsed in 1992 amid famine. His son, Hussein Farrah Aidid, spoke at a fundraiser for Nasri Warsame, a DFL candidate running against Council Member Aisha Chughtai. Warsame’s law-and-order campaign was hampered by a fracas that broke out during the Ward 10 DFL endorsing convention after Warsame supporters took...