Word: pakistanis
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...Indian Ocean are available for the job, and % Pentagon sources say an additional 15,000 or more would be ready, provided that the U.N. Security Council approves the initiative this week. Somali strongman General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who has hamstrung the oversight of an existing 500-man Pakistani unit, says somewhat ambiguously that he welcomes the U.S. initiative. But even if he doesn't, U.S. officials said, the decision should be made regardless of Aidid's views. The critical factor is concern for the 2 million Somalis who risk starvation in the coming months...
...months it has been clear that the only solution is to supply enough military power to force the convoys through. Yet all the United Nations has been able to muster is 500 Pakistani guards, all of whom are holed up in barracks, completely unable to deal with the armed gangs...
...Pakistani-American, I consider myself Asian-American, but I do not consider myself "yellow" (I am brown more than anything else). As such, I felt slighted by the posters, distributed by an organization which purports to represent all Asian Americans...
MOVING CAUTIOUSLY INTO TERRITORY CONTROLLED by clan militias and trigger-happy bandits, the first armed U.N. forces arrived in Somalia to guard relief shipments. U.S. planes flew in 60 troops, the advance team from a 500-man Pakistani battalion expected to arrive this week. Their initial assignment will be to secure the airport and harbor of Mogadishu, the capital, so food supplies can flow safely...
...back them up, the U.S. stationed four warships carrying helicopters and 2,100 Marines off the coast of Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman said the force was there only to support the airlift of the Pakistani troops. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen insisted the U.S. "has no intention of landing a Marine expedition...