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Washington -- U.N. forces are debating what to do about the huge arms caches maintained by all the major clan leaders in Gaalkacyo, a city more than 300 miles north of Mogadishu. In the wake of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's facing down the U.N. and the U.S., other clan heads are feeling more courageous about holding onto their weaponry, and the U.N. is considering seizing the supplies by force. Included in the caches are armed personnel carriers, artillery pieces, mortars and the type of antitank weapons that have been effective in shooting down U.S. Blackhawk helicopters...
...postmortem of the Oct. 3 battle that left 18 U.S. Army Rangers dead and 75 wounded has revealed that General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's loyalists used an ancient method to warn their comrades of the Rangers' attack -- they beat wooden sticks on drums, only in this case the drums were empty 50-gal. oil barrels. Followers of Aidid positioned at the Mogadishu airport began drumming when they saw the Rangers' helicopters take off, and as the message was heard, it was carried through the town by the same means...
Encouraged perhaps by the decision of the U.N. and the U.S. not to use military force to stop the fighting, rival clans waged gun battles all week in Mogadishu, killing at least 17 people. The shoot-outs among clans, the largest of which are led by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid and Mohammed Ali Mahdi, broke a seven-month cease-fire and stirred fears of a return to the civil war that raged from...
...hindsight, President Clinton undoubtedly wishes he'd stopped that U.N. Security Council resolution on Somalia last June -- the one leading to the pursuit and capture of warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has admitted that he regrets vetoing the military's request for more tanks for Somalia in September -- tanks that might have prevented Aidid's massacre of American troops on Oct. 3. And the Administration might well be having second thoughts about the so-called Governors Island accord of July 3, which committed the U.S. to send at least a few troops to help restore democracy...
...Clinton Administration reversed course in Somalia, saying it now seeks a political solution to the problems there. Shifting to what he called a "stand-down position" and signaling that the U.S. would no longer try to apprehend Mohammed Farrah Aidid, President Clinton ordered the withdrawal of 750 U.S. Army Rangers from Mogadishu...