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August 26, 2000 | From Times Wire Reports
Somalia's fledgling parliament elected veteran politician Abdiqassim Salad Hassan as president, the country's first since it collapsed into anarchy nine years ago. Abdiqassim Salad, 58, served as deputy prime minister and interior minister in the government of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, whose ouster in 1991 was followed by civil war between rival clan-based factions.
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August 10, 1996 | PETER Y. HONG and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
In Somalia, he may be a feared warlord. But back home in the San Gabriel Valley, Hussein Mohammed Aidid was a $9-an-hour municipal clerk, a part-time college student and a corporal in the U.S. Marine Reserve, who as of Wednesday was absent from his Pico Rivera artillery unit. On Sunday, Aidid, 34, replaced his late father, the notorious strongman Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid, as leader of one of Somalia's dominant warring factions, the United Somali Congress-Somali National Alliance.
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August 8, 1996 | PETER Y. HONG and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
In Somalia, he may be a feared warlord. But back home in the San Gabriel Valley, Hussein Mohammed Aidid was a $9-an-hour municipal clerk, a part-time college student and a corporal in the United States Marine Reserve, who as of Wednesday was absent from his Pico Rivera artillery unit. On Sunday, Aidid, 34, replaced his late father, the notorious strongman Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid, as leader of one of Somalia's dominant warring factions, the United Somali Congress-Somali National Alliance.
NEWS
August 5, 1996 | From Times Wire Services
Hussein Mohammed Aidid, who landed as a U.S. Marine in Somalia in 1992, was named Sunday to succeed his late father, Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid, the powerful faction leader who humiliated the U.S. military. The younger Aidid's appointment by his father's supporters came hours after they issued a policy document making it clear that the general's death will not lead to reconciliation among warring factions.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 4, 1993 | JOCELYN Y. STEWART, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Each day he awakened in a prison cell in Somalia, Omar Mohallim wondered if this would be the day he would die. The repressive government of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre had confiscated his land, taken his money and accused him of betraying the state in 1969, all without filing formal charges or presenting evidence, he recalled this week. "With this kind of regime you don't ask the charges," said Mohallim, who became the first Somalian ambassador to the United States in 1960.
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December 8, 1992 | KIM MURPHY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
At this desert way station for governments that have lost their way, Somalia's prime minister, Umar Arteh Ghalib, waits in a marbled Arab palace for the phone call that will summon him back to the hell he calls home. It is the same palace where Kuwaiti Emir Jabbar al Ahmed al Sabah cooled his heels for several days after his desperate flight from the Iraqis in Kuwait city. Deposed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sought refuge here from his enemies a few miles across the Saudi Desert to the west.