Word: mogadishu
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...ever experience again." Few doubt that the evacuation system has saved soldiers' lives. But it was born out of a bitter failure - the Oct. 3, 1993 debacle in Somalia. There, 18 American soldiers died and some 80 were injured while pinned down in a hostile corner of the capital, Mogadishu, with no way out. Just two days earlier, a U.S. medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people...
...President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Gedi as they arrived on a six-town visit from exile in Kenya, their first since the formation of a power-sharing government last year. Yusuf and Gedi are assessing conditions for the permanent relocation of the transitional government to Mogadishu...
...Alliance was declared the winner of the Jan. 30 election with 48% of the vote, gaining 140 of 275 seats in the new National Assembly. The Kurdish Alliance came second with 26%, followed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party with 14%. Assessing Insecurity SOMALIA An explosion in Mogadishu left at least two people dead and six injured. The bomb went off as an African Union delegation was visiting the capital, where it had been assessing security ahead of a planned peacekeeping mission. Earlier in the week, there had been protests against the inclusion of troops from neighboring countries...
...Somalia, even the dead don't rest in peace. Masked gunmen, allegedly in league with the powerful Islamic courts in Mogadishu, the capital, recently laid waste to an Italian colonial cemetery. After breaking open the tombs and pulling up the coffins, they dumped the human remains near the city's decrepit airport. The Militiamen now in control of the cemetery have begun to build a mosque there. The first to discover the desecration was a group of children who picked up bones and skulls and took them away as toys. Such horrors are all too common in Somalia...
...readers in mind. We faced that issue in 1983, when we covered the invasion of Grenada and the suicide bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, and in 1993, when Somali rebels ambushed U.S. troops and dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. In each case, we ran photographs that upset some readers but refrained from publishing the most brutal ones. We felt that what we presented to our readers did justice to the tragedies, but not in a gratuitous...