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Osman Hassan Ali Atto (also Ato) is a prominent Somali businessman and politician, affiliated with the Somali National Alliance. A member of the Habar Gedir clan, Atto has had several roles in various interim governments since the fall of the Barre government, most notably as the financial minister to Mohamed Farrah Aidid, only to participate in his ouster in 1995. The Somali National Alliance was a political alliance formed in June, 1992 with Mohamed Farrah Aidid as its head. ...
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General Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Caydiid) (December 15, 1934 – August 1, 1996) was a controversial, charismatic and skillful Somali leader. ...
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Tête-à-Tête with William Boykin In an event presaging the Battle of Mogadishu, Atto was the subject of successful abduction by Task Force Ranger on September 21, 1993, from a location near Digfer Hospital. In the course of the operation the Rangers received massive RPG fire from a nearby village. Combatants USSOF, UNOSOM II Somali National Alliance-affiliated militias Commanders William F. Garrison Mohamed Farrah Aidid Strength 160 2,000+ Casualties U.S. 18 killed 73 wounded 1 captured Malaysia 1 killed 7 wounded Pakistan 2 wounded Militia and civilians 1,000+ killed 3,000+ wounded Task Force Ranger achieved...
Official force name 75th Ranger Regiment Rangers Other names Airborne Rangers Army Rangers Task Force Ranger U.S. Army Rangers Branch U.S. Army Chain of Command USASOC Description Special Operations Force, rapidly deployable light infantry force. ...
The rangers had made an earlier attempt at his capture, but missed him by seconds; Atto would later be interviewed by CNN (who were apparently more succeessful at locating him than the Rangers), resulting in a loss of face to operation commander General William Boykin. Lieutenant-General William G. Boykin is the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. ...
In a speech at a church in Daytona, FL, in January 2003, Boykin recounted, "There was a man in Mogadishu named Osman Atto... He went on CNN and he laughed at us, and he said, 'They'll never get me because Allah will protect me. Allah will protect me.' Well, you know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol." [1] For other uses, see Allah (disambiguation). ...
Implicated in the killing of Gen. Yusuf Tallan The U.S. Department of State asserted, its Country Report for Somalia for the year 2000, [2] that the killing of Yusuf Tallan, a former general under the Barre regime. The report did not provide specific corroboration for the assertion.
July 2001 WFP convoy ambush The 2002 Country Report[3] asserts that militiamen loyal to warlord Atto were responsible for a July 14, 2001 ambush of a World Food Programme (WFP) relief convoy near Mogadishu, in which six persons were killed. // World Food Programme Hunger and undernutrition claim more lives than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined—25,000 people a day, one every four seconds. ...
Role in the TFG Most recently he has been a public works minister for the Transitional Federal Government, before its expulsion by the Islamic Courts Union. He resigned on July 27, 2006 saying "Our government failed to implement national reconciliation, so we have decided to resign." The Transitional Federal Parliament is an interim parliament of Somalia formed in neighbouring Kenya in 2004. ...
Motto: none Anthem: none Capital formerly Mogadishu and Kismayu Largest city n/a Official languages Somali and Arabic Government Sharia Krytocracy - Executive Chairman Sharif Sheikh Ahmed - Shura Chairman Hassan Dahir Aweys Civil War Faction Has not declared autonomy or independence - Established June 6th 2006 in Mogadishu Area - Total not finalized...
July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Refereces - ^ http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1016-08.htm
- ^ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/780.htm
- ^ http://www.historycentral.com/NationbyNation/Somalia/Human.html
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