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Wilde, a seasoned war correspondent who has been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating...
The rules seemed porous and confusing. Marines understood they were authorized to seize any weapons in their zone of security. Four soldiers, drawn by gunfire to a gutted six-story building down the block from the U.S. embassy, discovered a large arms cache that included boxes of ammunition, heavy machine...
From the start, the relationship between the foreign troops and Somalis has been ill defined, leaving ample room for misunderstanding. When a group of heavily armed Marines disgorged from an amphibious assault vehicle stenciled with the name BRAT PACK and tried to secure an airfield hangar, they baffled non-English...
The possibility of confrontation will increase sharply when the foreign troops push inland toward the famine belt. The situation to the south, in Kismayu, was grim. Sixty people were killed last week during clashes between two local factions, and all but a handful of relief workers had to be evacuated...
In strictly military terms, the venture is not especially daring or dangerous. First to go in will be 1,800 Marines from an amphibious task force that was diverted to the Somali coast two weeks ago. They are equipped for action and backed by two dozen Cobra attack helicopters. Somalia...