© Crispin Hughes / Panos Pictures.Kenya. Hotel Serena, Nairobi, 1994. .Journalists interview Somali warlord General Mohamed Farah Aideed. A year earlier he had been the subject of a massive manhunt by the United States' forces in Mogadishu, Somalia. This culminated in the military fiasco described in the book 'Black Hawk Down' in which 18 Americans and hundreds of Somalis were killed. .Aideed and his small entourage had taken a suite of rooms in the luxury Serena Hotel, a favourite staging post for American tourists going on Safari.