Word: aidid
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SOMALIA. When the U.N. branded warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid a criminal it intended to arrest, American troops spearheaded the effort to seize him. But then his forces killed 18 U.S. service members last October, prompting Clinton to announce that all American troops would go home within six months. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. provided a jet to fly Aidid to a meeting of clan chiefs trying to cobble together a new regime. The flip-flops angered Italy, which also had troops in Somalia. "The U.S. didn't know how to calibrate the use of force," says Italian Defense Minister Fabio Fabbri...
Determinedly immersed in domestic issues, the White House frequently displays a don't-bother-me attitude toward foreign affairs. Clinton was not even aware that the U.N. had decided to issue what amounted to a warrant for Aidid's arrest, for example. And the President, says a Washington official, "doesn't have any instinct about what plays abroad." Relations between the U.S. and India are normally prickly, but there was no need to irritate them further by letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary...
...lucky. The scaled-down force will limit itself to securing a few strategic ports and airports and, where possible, to guarding relief supplies. Even those diminished goals may prove overly ambitious, say some military observers. They argue that with a few well-timed attacks, warlords like Mohammed Farrah Aidid could drive the U.N. forces out. Though the warlord continued to meet last week with other militia leaders to search for a political solution, most observers believe that he will never settle for anything less than supreme power...
...Sunday, Oct. 3, six MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and eight MH-6 and AH-6 "Little Birds" headed for a building in southeastern Mogadishu where Aidid's henchmen were reported to be meeting. Within minutes, nearly 50 commandos from Delta Force, the premier U.S. counterterrorism unit, and several hundred Army Rangers had captured 24 of Aidid's closest colleagues. While helicopters from Task Force 160, the Army's special-operations air wing, fluttered overhead, the Rangers herded the prisoners into a nearby courtyard and awaited a ground convoy to take them away. Then came the radio report that would...
Washington -- Retired U.S. Admiral JONATHAN HOWE, the United Nations' special representative in Somalia, has been quietly pulled out of that country by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Howe headed last year's hapless effort to catch Somali strongman Mohammed Farrah Aidid, and even offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture. At the time, Boutros- Ghali vigorously condemned Aidid and called for him to be brought to justice. Nonetheless, U.N. sources say, since Aidid is now considered a key part of peace negotiations, Boutros-Ghali has decided that Howe's continued presence in Somalia would only...