Word: mogadishu
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...that the U.S. necessarily suspects the Somali government of harboring terrorists - but in a land where the government, like the warlords, collects its taxes at roadblocks, state authority is almost non-existent outside Mogadishu. And Washington believes Al Qaeda has been exploiting that situation by renewing its ties with local Islamic radicals to set up a safe haven...
ATTACK Oct. 3, 1993 Mogadishu, Somalia Bin Laden claims he supplied weapons and fighters to Somalis involved in a fierce battle that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead...
...TERRORIST ATTACK] In October 1993, 18 U.S. servicemen were killed in Mogadishu by Somalis who opposed U.N. intervention. Bin Laden claims they were assisted by al-Qaeda members...
...Taliban--may have died along with Haq. His capture also highlighted the treachery of the Taliban's network of spies in Pakistan, who will try to tip off holy warriors in Kandahar to pending U.S. raids. In American war rooms, that reality--and the memories of Beirut and Mogadishu--haunts military strategists. As long as the public is patient and intelligence is thin, the Pentagon will wait on ordering up big commando missions that might produce heavy American casualties...
...neither is it just a handful of desperate nihilists, cowering in Afghan caves. If there is anything that the events of recent weeks have demonstrated, it is that we are at war with an ideology—one with deeper global roots, stretching from Cairo to Kandahar, Malaysia to Mogadishu, than any of us had realized...