Osman Ali Atto (1940 – August 5, 2013), also spelled Ato, was a controversial Somali businessman, faction leader, and politician affiliated with the Somali National Alliance. Atto served as the primary advisor and financier of Mohammed Farah Aidid. He was also the Somalia representative of the American petroleum company Conoco.[1]
In September 1993 he was captured by American special forces conducting Operation Gothic Serpent in support of UNOSOM II and was released in January 1994.[2] In a battle between him and Aidid in Mogadishu during August 1996, Aidid was fatally wounded by one of Atto's snipers.[3] During the Ethiopian military occupation of the mid-2000's, Atto was member of parliament within the Transitional Federal Government.[4]
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