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...weapon of choice in Somalia. First the United Nations offered $25,000 for information leading to the capture of Somali warlord MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID; now, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Aidid is offering $1 million for the assassination of retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, the U.N.'s special envoy to Somalia. Howe has been a particularly outspoken critic of Aidid...
PROFILE: A Glamorous Envoy to France...
...over the delayed invasion of Sicily. Most of all he introduced her to anyone he received, and more and more Americans turned up. "It seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy, who was dining with the Churchills at Chequers one night when a valet turned on a radio to provide reports of Japan's sneak attack of Pearl Harbor. Pamela later said Harriman was "the most handsome man I had ever met." He was, however, married...
...Marine raised on John Wayne movies and bloodied in Desert Storm's armored romp through Iraq might be perplexed by last week's action in Mogadishu. Under the command of a Turkish general who was advised by a retired U.S. admiral, U.N. Special Envoy Jonathan Howe, troops from five countries set about destroying the power base of Somalia's most notorious warlord, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, beneath a hail of missile fire and cannon bursts from helicopter gunships overhead. Troops from the U.S., Pakistan, Morocco, France and Italy searched for Aidid. Prodded by Washington, the U.N. wanted to punish...
...force and as a general in Siad Barre's army in the war with Ethiopia. But as a tribal rival of Siad Barre's Darod clan family, he was never fully trusted and was imprisoned without trial for six years in the early 1970s. Later, Siad Barre appointed him envoy to New Delhi to get him out of the country. In 1991 he finally joined in the overthrow of Siad Barre. Soon, though, he fell out with another leader of the congress, Ali Mahdi Mohammed: in a three-month period the two men shelled the once beautiful port city...