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...Sunday, Oct. 3, six MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and eight MH-6 and AH-6 "Little Birds" headed for a building in southeastern Mogadishu where Aidid's henchmen were reported to be meeting. Within minutes, nearly 50 commandos from Delta Force, the premier U.S. counterterrorism unit, and several hundred Army Rangers had captured 24 of Aidid's closest colleagues. While helicopters from Task Force 160, the Army's special-operations air wing, fluttered overhead, the Rangers herded the prisoners into a nearby courtyard and awaited a ground convoy to take them away. Then came the radio report that would...
Washington's newly emerging willingness to distinguish Cedras from Francois does little to dispel suspicions that the U.S. attitude toward some of Haiti's henchmen is not as hostile as American rhetoric would indicate. "Francois is really the major problem," says a Pentagon analyst. Cedras, he says, is "somebody we can deal with." Last week at a press conference Clinton singled out only Francois by name for criticism, not Cedras...
...surrounded himself with a group of thuggish henchmen who specialized in murder and mayhem rather than the silkier arts of persuasion and blackmail once favored by the Mafia. Unlike tradition-bound gangsters who obeyed the vow of silence when arrested, some of these lieutenants cut deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith...
...slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...
After a night of inconclusive negotiations, 400 army commandos stormed the jail at dawn and freed the hostages unharmed, but Escobar was gone. He and his brother Roberto and nine of their henchmen were nowhere to be found. They had somehow absconded, apparently with help from prison guards and military officers whom they had paid off. As troops combed the surrounding mountains, an embarrassed President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who has come under criticism for dealing leniently with drug traffickers, could only remark, lamely, "I wish I had an explanation for everything that has happened...