Word: mogadishu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...south Mogadishu, where Aidid is still defiant, the story is anything but good. Constantly on the move, always surrounded by women and children, Aidid has managed to elude arrest and assassination despite the arrival last August of 400 U.S. Rangers ordered to find him. His gunmen are marauding through the city, and U.N. forces, led by the U.S., have responded with a heavy hand. Earlier this month, more than 100 Somalis were killed and wounded when U.S. helicopters fired into a crowd that had ambushed a passing U.N. convoy. Last week the Rangers had a small success when they captured...
...helicopters 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...
...tactics are brutal but effective: He uses women and children as screens for his gunmen, forcing peacekeepers either to sit and be shot or to fire into the crowd. He knows that both dead foreign troops and dead Somalis damage the credibility of the U.N. operation. His presence in Mogadishu ensures continued unrest and violence; he retains significant support in Mogadishu and he knows...
Pratfall in Mogadishu...
...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...