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...they U.S. Rangers or Keystone Kops? An elite squad of 50 U.S. Army troops, hunting Somali warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, stormed a building in Mogadishu last week and trussed up nine men and women. The detainees turned out to be U.N. aid workers. A Pentagon official admitted the predawn raid was "not particularly auspicious for the Rangers...
...their own adherents. The annual budget for these groups is estimated to be $20 million, and they are supplied with arms ranging from sophisticated explosives to jeeps and trucks. The State Department says it also has information that Sudan has helped militant elements in Somalia, including General Mohammed Farrah Aidid...
...Somali warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid escalated his assaults against U.N. peacekeepers early last week, four U.S. soldiers were killed when their humvee all-purpose vehicle was blown up by a remote-control bomb. An outraged President Clinton vowed to take "appropriate action" that might include sending in "special forces and other creative military operations" to hunt down Aidid. But Senate Republican leader Bob Dole urged the Administration to review and possibly scale back its military presence in Somalia...
Cash has become a new 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...
...United Nations as in the streets of Mogadishu. Without bothering to notify Rome, Kofi Annan, the U.N.'s chief of peacekeeping operations, ordered General Bruno Loi, Italy's military commander in Somalia, to be "rotated back home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted a U.N. official, should "either get on the team...