Word: mogadishu
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...readily as they did in 1991 after 38 days of heavy bombing. But the Iraqi leader, intelligence officials believe, is shrewdly calculating that the U.S. military brass--and the American public--cannot stomach the prospect of sizable losses in such an exchange. Think back to the debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 (chronicled in the movie Black Hawk Down), when 18 U.S. troops were killed, prompting a quick American withdrawal from that African nation. In Iraq there is the added risk that Saddam will use biological or chemical weapons against American troops. U.S. military leaders say 30% of street-fighting...
...rocks and wipe out the enemy fighters. But Perez and the others in command remembered the 1993 Somali fire fight--a panicky retreat in which 18 Americans were killed--and they decided to dig in. "We didn't run from the fight," says Grippe. "It wasn't a Mogadishu...
...legislators and human-rights activists built support in the U.S. Congress for legislation that would have armed the SPLA and punished the oil companies backing the government in Khartoum. SOMALIA Militia Battles At least 28 people were killed and more than 25 injured in fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu's residential Medina district. Many of those who died were civilians. Thousands fled their homes after indiscriminate gunfire and shelling broke out between the forces of Muse Sudi Yalahow, one of the former capital's most powerful militia leaders, and his former ally Omar Mohammed Filish. Somalia...
...kill ratio of 60 to 1 is the stuff of martial dreams. Seven of the men died owing solely to our very difficult decision to leave no Americans behind. A redoubtable enemy with suicidal tendencies was routed. This was not a U.S. debacle, and it certainly wasn't Mogadishu redux. HARRY JONES Dallas...
...learned to endure. That hasn't happened yet; Shah-i-Kot marks the first time in many years that Americans have died in battle on a foreign field without a sense of outrage and shame at home. After 18 Army Rangers and special forces died at the battle of Mogadishu in 1993--the subject of the film Black Hawk Down--some relatives of the dead thought their sons had been betrayed by their political leaders, while many citizens felt guilty about allowing men to be placed in danger for an ill-defined purpose...