Word: aidid
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...south Mogadishu, where Aidid is still defiant, the story is anything but good. Constantly on the move, always surrounded by women and children, Aidid has managed to elude arrest and assassination despite the arrival last August of 400 U.S. Rangers ordered to find him. His gunmen are marauding through the city, and U.N. forces, led by the U.S., have responded with a heavy hand. Earlier this month, more than 100 Somalis were killed and wounded when U.S. helicopters fired into a crowd that had ambushed a passing U.N. convoy. Last week the Rangers had a small success when they captured...
Fifty-two foreign soldiers have died since Aidid started targeting them in June. U.S. officials admit his forces have the capacity to conduct hit-and-run attacks indefinitely. U.N. positions take mortar fire most nights as Aidid tries to wear down the staying power of the 30 countries contributing troops. His subordinates vow to fight on even if he is captured...
...into a crowd in Mogadishu, apparently killing or wounding more than 100 people, including women and children. U.N. peacekeeping officials insisted the shooting was a last resort to save the lives of U.N. troops who were being attacked. The attackers on the ground, supporters of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two more and also wounded two Americans. The U.S. Senate, increasingly concerned about the situation, passed a resolution urging that the President seek congressional approval if he wants to keep the troops there beyond...
...they U.S. Rangers or Keystone Kops? An elite squad of 50 U.S. Army troops, hunting Somali warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, stormed a building in Mogadishu last week and trussed up nine men and women. The detainees turned out to be U.N. aid workers. A Pentagon official admitted the predawn raid was "not particularly auspicious for the Rangers...
...their own adherents. The annual budget for these groups is estimated to be $20 million, and they are supplied with arms ranging from sophisticated explosives to jeeps and trucks. The State Department says it also has information that Sudan has helped militant elements in Somalia, including General Mohammed Farrah Aidid...