Word: mogadishu
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Mistakes and miscues made in the field bear out that assessment. In Mogadishu a lack of proper equipment has cost scores of lives. Pakistan sent 5,000 troops who did not have telephones, walkie-talkies, flak jackets, tear gas and even batons. Gear was eventually provided by other countries, but not before some of the poorly protected troops died in ambushes, and Somali civilians were killed when soldiers without riot gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water...
Washington -- U.N. forces are debating what to do about the huge arms caches maintained by all the major clan leaders in Gaalkacyo, a city more than 300 miles north of Mogadishu. In the wake of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's facing down the U.N. and the U.S., other clan heads are feeling more courageous about holding onto their weaponry, and the U.N. is considering seizing the supplies by force. Included in the caches are armed personnel carriers, artillery pieces, mortars and the type of antitank weapons that have been effective in shooting down U.S. Blackhawk helicopters...
...dead and 75 wounded has revealed that General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's loyalists used an ancient method to warn their comrades of the Rangers' attack -- they beat wooden sticks on drums, only in this case the drums were empty 50-gal. oil barrels. Followers of Aidid positioned at the Mogadishu airport began drumming when they saw the Rangers' helicopters take off, and as the message was heard, it was carried through the town by the same means...
...apple pie, partly because the cold war is over, partly because in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, Clinton and his foreign policy team evoke the gang that couldn't shoot straight. That impression was certainly reinforced by the spectacle of the "world's only superpower" beating a panicky retreat in Mogadishu over the deaths of 18 American troops. But, you say, along with practically everyone else, if we intervene somewhere and risk even one American life, it must be only in the American national interest. The nagging question: Just what is the American national interest...
Encouraged perhaps by the decision of the U.N. and the U.S. not to use military force to stop the fighting, rival clans waged gun battles all week in Mogadishu, killing at least 17 people. The shoot-outs among clans, the largest of which are led by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid and Mohammed Ali Mahdi, broke a seven-month cease-fire and stirred fears of a return to the civil war that raged from...