They were used a month later in opposition to the army of the Islamic Courts Union on the Battle of Bandiradley alongside Abdi Qeybdiid’s reconstituted militia. Proving their susceptibility to heavy weapons and their value as a army prize, the Islamic Courts Union was in a position to seize 30 “battlewagons” through the defeat of warlord Abdi Qeybdid’s militia on the Second Battle of Mogadishu in 2006. That September, an impressive array of 130 technicals was used to take Kismayo from the forces of the Juba Valley Alliance. Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid used 30 technicals along with a drive of 600 militia to capture Baidoa in September 1995. After he was killed in clan combating in 1996, his body was carried to his funeral on a Toyota pickup.
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