UN demonization transformed Aideed into an international hero and national symbol.

Evidence

Aideed took advantage of this wholesale foreign condemnation, proclaiming with Sudanese support that — unlikely though this was to those who knew him – he was fighting in the name of Islam to free his country from alien domination (Howe was suspected of having Christian fundamentalist leanings). Assisted by simplistic media reporting, he even began to acquire an international reputation as an oppressed national hero, an image strengthened by his success in provoking the U.N. into demonizing him and concentrating virtually all the energies of the vast Somali operation on taking him captive. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 636

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