Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled with angry hornets. The buzz and crack of small-arms fire was all around" the pinned-down Rangers, as two rescue columns fought to reach them. One, a Quick Reaction Force riding unarmored trucks and humvees (modern versions of the jeep) could not get through. Pakistani, Malaysian and U.S. troops -- some, ironically, aboard Soviet-made armored personnel carriers -- finally made it to the scene 10 hours after the Rangers came under attack...
...Mogadishu, apparently killing or wounding more than 100 people, including women and children. U.N. peacekeeping officials insisted the shooting was a last resort to save the lives of U.N. troops who were being attacked. The attackers on the ground, supporters of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two more and also wounded two Americans. The U.S. Senate, increasingly concerned about the situation, passed a resolution urging that the President seek congressional approval if he wants to keep the troops there beyond...
...flash of violence, warlord Mohammed Aideed launched an ambush on Pakistani peacekeepers, killing 24. His headquarters and followers were soon attacked, but he remained at large and continues to mount operations against U.S. peacekeepers, often singling out Americans. As the violence has mounted, so have the calls for withdrawal...
...battles have raged in the streets of Mogadishu almost daily since 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died in an ambush last month. Blaming Aidid, the U.S. has led U.N. forces in an aggressive bid to flush him out, culminating in a daylight attack on a meeting of Aidid's top commanders on Monday. At the end of a 20-min. barrage of missiles and cannon fire from U.S. helicopter gunships, dozens of bodies lay scattered around the demolished villa. When foreign journalists arrived to view the carnage, an enraged crowd turned on them with stones, guns and machetes, killing four...
...predominantly American and the real boss in Somalia is U.N. special representative Jonathan Howe, a retired U.S. Navy admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American. "The U.S. is quick to stir up trouble with air strikes," said a Pakistani peacekeeper, "but it is my men and other Third World soldiers who always draw the tough assignments on the ground...