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...last week attitudes toward General Mohammed Farrah Aidid suddenly changed...
...Carlos Rodriguez the battle was a few seconds of terror, hours of agonized waiting. While his comrades stormed the building near the Olympic Hotel in Mogadishu to try to snatch Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, Rodriguez and the rest of his squad swarmed down ropes from a helicopter and began a security patrol through a nearby street. "It was bright daylight; there were windows and doors all around us, and you can't watch all of them all the time," said Rodriguez. "All of a sudden the Somalis just opened up on us, small arms and grenades. There was shooting...
...felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems." When the brutality of a local khan like Somalia's Mohammed Farrah Aidid rouses Americans from self-absorption, their response -- get out of there -- is as reflexive as was Bush's impulse to go into Somalia in the first place...
American Army Rangers in Mogadishu raided a suspected meeting place of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but the attack went awry and turned into a 15-hour fire fight, leaving at least 15 American soldiers dead, one taken prisoner and two unnacounted for. With Congress in an uproar, President Clinton addressed the nation and said he would immediately send more troops to Somalia, bringing their number to 10,000. Clinton pledged, however, that all forces would return home by March...
...fired into a crowd in Mogadishu, apparently killing or wounding more than 100 people, including women and children. U.N. peacekeeping officials insisted the shooting was a last resort to save the lives of U.N. troops who were being attacked. The attackers on the ground, supporters of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two more and also wounded two Americans. The U.S. Senate, increasingly concerned about the situation, passed a resolution urging that the President seek congressional approval if he wants to keep the troops there beyond...