Word: aidid
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...Mogadishu street where Cliff Wolcott died on Oct. 3 last year doesn't even have a name. For Wolcott, one of 15 helicopter pilots who took part in the ill-fated operation aimed at capturing warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, luck ran out when he spotted several armed Somalis firing rocket-propelled grenades at his Black Hawk attack helicopter. Turning the craft broadside to give his gunners a bet- ter shot, Wolcott became a perfect target. A grenade exploded into the side of the chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going...
Many of the details of that debacle are well known: the aborted mission to rein in Aidid, the desperate efforts of several relief convoys to reach and extricate the trapped Task Force Rangers and -- above all, the capture, beating and humiliation of helicopter pilot Michael Durant. One part of the story has gone largely unreported, however: the 15-hour pitched battle that took place around the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, an extraordinary display of valor by 99 men under calamitous circumstances. TIME has been told that two of those men who gave their life to protect Durant -- Sergeant First...
MacArthur said that the media also failed to cover adequately the U.S. intervention in Somalia. Only foreign photographers took pictures of the mutilation of American corpses after the failed kidnapping attempt of faction leader General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, MacArthur said...
...case, the U.S. has not been tinkering with situations in Bosnia and Somalia in order to stem a Marxist tide. If anything, despots Milosevic and Aidid stray toward the other, fascist end of the political spectrum. But the other facet of the war in Vietnam--the U.S.'s long, intractable involvement--does merit some fear of repetition...
Warring Somali factions met in neighboring Ethiopia to discuss the fate of Somalia. Chances for success in the negotiations were improved by the late arrival of powerful clan leader Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who boycotted a U.N.-sponsored humanitarian-aid meeting earlier in the week. Aidid, only recently the target of a manhunt by U.S. forces, flew to the conference aboard an American military plane...