Mohamed Farah Aideed's Habr Gedir clan (actually a subclan of the Hawiye) comes from the Mudug region. The hot, dry and destitute condition of the Mudug region ensures that only the strong survive. Aideed's driving ambition was to forge a Somali state. When his U.S. pursuers boasted of getting so close to catching him that his bed was still warm, reporters invited into that "still warm" sanctum found a book on Thomas Jefferson on the bedside table. But this was not merely a man who, as head of the Habr Gedir clan, was unable to accommodate other clans. Within his own Habr Gedir, vicious infighting has erupted between extended families.
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