Word: mogadishu
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...lame duck, George Bush was flying high and fast -- both literally and symbolically. First he logged 8,000 miles from Washington to Somalia, where he greeted 1993 with troops he had dispatched there a month ago to relieve starvation. The President spent New Year's Eve in Mogadishu and journeyed the next day to Baidoa, in the heart of the famine zone. Then, without so much as returning to Washington to change his shirt, he winged north 3,700 miles to snowy Moscow. There, he and Boris Yeltsin were to sign a treaty that should accomplish the truly radical...
TALK ABOUT A SECURITY NIGHTMARE. IN THE FINAL sprint of a peripatetic presidency, George Bush arrived in Mogadishu just as armed thugs were returning to the streets. "I doubt if any American President has ever visited a nation in such turmoil and such a state of anarchy," said Colonel Fred Peck, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition. Bush waved off the threat with characteristic thumbs-up bravado, stating improbably, "It's perfectly safe...
Bush landed just four days after Somalia's two top warlords staged a splashy joint appearance to announce the opening of the "green line" dividing Mogadishu's northern and southern sectors. But only a few hours later, warring clans exchanged unusually heavy mortar and artillery fire...
...beleaguered residents of Mogadishu had brief cause for rejoicing last week. Under the gaze of TV cameras, Somalia's leading warlords, Ali Mahdi Mohammed and General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, jointly announced that the so- called green line dividing the capital into separate sectors under their respective control had been abolished. Thousands of men and women cheered as the two rivals promised that for the first time in more than a year, people were free to travel across the capital. "Today is a great day," declared Ali Mahdi, whose gangsters control the northern part of Mogadishu. "Starting from this minute...
...shooting afterward. Several vehicles attempting to cross the green line were stolen by marauding gunmen. Journalists and relief workers who ventured near the line were robbed and threatened by teenage gangsters brandishing automatic | weapons. "Whatever the two men say," observed an aide to Ali Mahdi, "the people of Mogadishu will not mix. There is too much hostility...