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...Laden subsequently claimed his men were behind the 1993 debacle in Mogadishu, where 17 U.S. servicemen were killed in a botched raid on a local warlord. Whether or not there's any basis to the claim, Bin Laden wants to be held responsible for that and any other attack for which the media is prepared to blame him. The reason he has spent the past decade offering assistance to a wide range of pre-existing Islamist groups is precisely because he wants to paint himself as the personification of the considerable anti-American sentiment inflaming much of the Arab world...
That way, at least, icky incidents like 19 dead servicemen being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu will be avoided—if only the boors had taken more care not to “offend the Somali people through their brazen disregard for cultural mores and practices”! Special sessions in which Gandhi is contemplated and the love-force imbibed are also in the works...
...this zero-casualty logic that forced us from the bleeding streets of Mogadishu, that compelled us to wage a virtual war from the sky over Milosevic’s Serbia without even admitting the possibility of sending in ground forces, and that has now created the bizarre situation with our Chinese “friends,” in which the most powerful nation on earth has made an apology to a government whose reckless pilot forced our aircraft from the skies and then held our crew as, well, hostages...
...SOMALIA Kidnapped A convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...
...John F. Kennedy School of Government. She jumped at the WFP post "because jobs like this come once in a lifetime." Since 1988 she's been married to Thomas Haskell, a photographer who enjoys globe trotting with her (although he once got separated from a WFP motorcade in Mogadishu and was held at gunpoint...