Word: mogadishu
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...hopes, coalition forces will have imposed sufficient order and made enough progress in Iraq to provide an implicit rebuke to critics of the Iraqi invasion. The last thing it needed, as the June 30 deadline creeps closer, was a grotesque scene that immediately conjured images of another American nightmare--Mogadishu, when a Somali mob killed 18 U.S. soldiers and dragged an Army Ranger's corpse through the streets. The Clinton Administration withdrew U.S. forces soon afterward, leaving that benighted nation to its warlords...
...Fallujah's impact, though, came from the gruesome images of four charred bodies dismembered beyond recognition and eventually strung up from a bridge by a euphoric mob. Those pictures revealed a deep-seated hatred of America among a section of Iraq's civilian population. Much was made of the Mogadishu comparison, the famous "Blackhawk Down" incident in which images of locals dancing over the corpse of a U.S. serviceman being dragged through the streets of the Somali capital helped prompt a U.S. withdrawal. And while nobody believes the Fallujah killings will have a similar effect, the echo was clear...
...Abdi Salan Mohammed Hassan - a gangly, gentle, 23-year-old Somali man crammed into the open 12-m boat with scores of other Africans, all trying to smuggle themselves into Europe - isn't worried. It has taken him eight months to travel a 4,500-km route from Mogadishu and begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism seems rewarded four hours later, when the young Egyptian piloting the green-and-white fishing boat spots the lights of Malta, steers left, and announces that the Italian coast...
...Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk him out of it, telling Abdi Salan that the trip is too risky and life will be hard even if he makes it. "I'm a man now," he tells her. "And in life, sometimes a man must suffer." FROM MOGADISHU TO KHARTOUM With a schedule of northbound buses in hand, Abdi Salan announces that he will leave the following morning. He has finally gained his parents' permission, and he sits his four younger brothers and sisters down for a chat, but decides not to tell them that he's fleeing...
...When I saw what happened to my friend, I understood that in Mogadishu you can get killed anywhere, for any reason