aidid
Noun
Meaning
aidid (plural aidids)
(entomology) Any member of the family Aididae.
Examples
Among these was the Battle of Mogadishu of 1993, a US apprehension of two high-ranking lieutenants of faction leader Aidid.
Aidid was one of many officers serving at the central command of the Army at the time of the putsch.
Atto was a former supporter and financier of Aidid, and of the same subclan.
Atto is alleged to have masterminded the defeat of Aidid.
Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid used 30 technicals along with a force of 600 militia to capture Baidoa in September 1995. citation After he was killed in clan fighting in 1996, his body was carried to his funeral on a Toyota pickup.