Operation Gothic Serpent had the mission of capturing a faction leader born in what year?
Mohamed Farrah Aidid Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid (Somali: ; December 15, 1934 – August 1, 1996) was a Somali military commander and political leader. A former general and diplomat, he was the chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC) and later led the Somali National Alliance (SNA). Along with other armed opposition groups, they drove out President Mohamed Siad Barre's socialist regime from Somalia's capital Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War that broke out in the early 1990s.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri Abu Ayyub al-Masri ( ; أبو أيّوب المصري , "ʾAbū ʾAyyūb al-Maṣrī " ; translation: "Father of Ayyub the Egyptian") (ca. 1968 – 18 April 2010), also known as (   ) Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (أبو حمزة المهاجر "ʾAbū Ḥamzah al-Muhāǧir "; translation: "Father of Hamza the immigrant") and other aliases (see name) was the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency, following the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June 2006. He was prime minister of the Islamic State of Iraq from 2009-2010.