Michael, when you mentioned that, it rang a bell….Here’s an AP report from 2002:

Washington — 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. Hussein Farrah Aidid is the son of Mohamed Aidid, the warlord who directed the October 1993 uprising against American forces — and of a mother who brought him to the United States at age 17. Today, he is a warlord himself, in exile in Ethiopia. He hopes to return to his Somali clan and is inviting the United States to come back, too, this time to root out suspected al-Qaida leaders in his homeland.

Food for thought.