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...those bases will presumably be the huge Soviet-built naval installation at Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, about 625 miles north of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which...
Somalia is one of the world's poorest nations. Western diplomats consider the Mogadishu government's relief campaign to be well intentioned, but it is hampered somewhat by bureaucratic bungling and low-level corruption. Moreover, international aid for the refugees has been slow in coming. The result is a severe shortage of food and medicine. At Agabar, a sprawling relief camp housing 44,000 people, a huge field was cleared on which camp farmers could grow vegetables and other crops. The project has come to a standstill for lack of a few feet of pipe to carry water...
...here, in Afghanistan, and other places, they are the oppressors of colonized people," says Abdullahi Hassan Mohamoud, secretary-general of the W.S.L.F. "If the U.S. helps us to counter Soviet aggression, it will have most of the world on its side." In recent months, he claims, American envoys in Mogadishu have begun to meet discreetly with W.S.L.F. leaders. "There has been no great change in what they say, but the fact that we are talking to them at all is a great achievement...
...shrewdly. First of all, he had the sense not to call army troops out into the streets, which would have alarmed Germans and other Europeans alike. When he did use troops, in 1977, it was to launch the dramatic commando raid that rescued a hijacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu...
...protesters the only source of worry. West German officials, concerned about possible left-wing terrorism during the series, and mindful of the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, insisted on sending with their squad twelve members of the GSG-9 anti-terrorist commando unit that freed 86 skyjacked hostages at Mogadishu Airport last October...