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Aidid could not let the challenge go unanswered. In a broadcast from his personal radio station in Mogadishu, he charged that the Americans had | engineered Morgan's coup, secretly flying him into Kismayu by helicopter. Next morning, the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, angry mobs jammed the streets of Mogadishu, setting up burning roadblocks of tires and overturned vehicles. Children who had waved happily at passing American troops the day before now hurled chunks of concrete. The next day, the stones turned to bullets and coalition troops fought back...
...just astonishing to be able to recruit a couple this strong," he said. "This is a real coup for Harvard University...
...true coup," said Government Department Chair Susan J. Pharr. "He's one of the world's leading experts on third world development issues and African politics and a superb teache. He will bring great strength to the government department...
With the CIA's help, Mobutu stepped into the power vacuum that followed the Belgian Congo's chaotic independence in 1960. Staging a bloodless coup, he took power, only to hand it back to a civilian President. The next year, ousted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who had turned increasingly to the Soviet Union for support, was assassinated in an operation that benefited both Mobutu and the CIA. "I received instructions to see that Lumumba was removed from the world," recalls Devlin. "I received poison toothpaste, among other devices, but never used them." Mobutu seized control for good in a second...
Aristide supporter Pierre Fequiere, 29, was one of the lucky ones who won the right to seek asylum in the U.S. Arrested after the 1991 coup, he was bound with a cord around his neck and marched off to jail. He lost two teeth when an officer hit him with the butt of a gun. Released provisionally, he fled into the wilderness like the slaves of old. When he returned home, the police tried to gun him down. Days before he got his exit visa to the U.S., soldiers stopped him and kicked him. "If Aristide comes back," he says...