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...election of a "transitional federal government." But that body is already split by a rivalry between the President and Prime Minister, on the one hand, who are holed up in the small town of Jowhar, and several warlords, some of whom are also cabinet ministers, based in Mogadishu. With no way of controlling his own ministers, let alone the bandits who wander Somalia's plains or the pirates that ply her seas, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi has asked for help to stop the piracy and monitor the country's coastline. "We cannot handle this issue as we have...
...hijack this passing ship," says Mahalingam. "What could I do?" The pirates jumped into their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured too. The ships sailed together towards Harardhere, 400 km up the coast from Mogadishu. There, Mahalingam and his chief engineer were taken ashore and were driven 50 km inland, where they met the pirate bosses. "At that stage I realized that all the coastal villages were involved," says Mahalingam...
...target of international terrorism in 1968, the world has feared the specter of a planeload of innocent people being destroyed, by either design or accident, in the course of a hijack drama. Over and over, at airports in the Middle East--and notably at Entebbe in Uganda and at Mogadishu in Somalia--the specter had been miraculously dispelled, the lives of innocents spared. The latest hijacking ended far more disastrously. Because of the demonstrated savagery of this particular band of terrorists, and perhaps because of mistakes made by well-intentioned governments and rescuers, only 38 of those aboard EgyptAir...
...publicity given to such commando feats as the 1976 Israeli raid at Entebbe and West Germany's 1977 rescue operation at Mogadishu, Somalia, may have inflated expectations. The fact is that such methods heighten the risk to hostages. According to a 1977 study by the California-based Rand Corp., 79% of all hostage deaths in terrorist situations occur during rescues. Says Uri Ra'anan, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The most difficult and risky type of operation is a rescue mission. It is the most likely to lead to loss of life...
...take the occasion, in writing to you out of Africa, to say that your review of the new film Out of Africa [CINEMA, Dec. 16] is wrong in saying that Karen Blixen never mentions her husband in her book. She does, twice. Peter S. Bridges U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Mogadishu...