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Clinton's confident morning-after quarterbacking masked the fact that the raid was an effort to bolster a seriously flagging U.N. effort. The U.S., when it dominated the Somalia operation, had done little to squelch the warlords permanently, and the U.N.'s subsequent buildup had proceeded slowly. A promised contingent of 7,000 troops, including 4,000 from India, never arrived. As the weeks gave way to months, says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy during the opening phases of Operation Restore Hope, "we kept telling Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali we were leaving, but he wouldn't take it seriously...
Stories on regular College activities were squeezed out as ROTC and military service news occupied constant front-page coverage. In a strange juxtaposition, one story reported "Air Raid Hits Yard Concert...
Designated students within each house also served as air raid coordinators, who hurried students out of their dorm rooms to makeshift basement bomb shelters whenever practice air sirens sounded throughout the Boston area. The air raid coordinators, trained in disarming thermite bombs, were required to wear helmets and armbands whenever a siren sounded...
Ironically, Netanyahu was not killed in the heat of battle, according Malin. Rather, Netanyahu was shot after the danger point of the Entebbe raid had passed and it appeared that the troops would escape the airport without any fatalities...
Because Netanyahu survived the more life-threatening parts of the raid--as well as countless other dangerous battles--Malin likens his almost avoidable death to a senseless accident...