Word: somali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African near-death experience: Our bus very nearly got attacked by Somali Mafia members. We were riding up the coast on this little island. The whole time, I'd been in Kenya, I'd been reading about how these Somali warrior gunmen were hiding to attack this certain bus route. Lo and behold, we ended up going on that bus route. The next day, after we got off the bus, it was attacked...
...Harvard near-death experience: Well, you know, once the shuttle was attacked by Somali gunmen, because there was no police escort around Currier...
...revelations about trouble in the Airborne reopened an earlier wound. In 1994 Canada was shocked by the courts martial of nine members of the unit for torturing and killing a 16-year-old Somali boy who had trespassed on their compound in Belet Huen while he was looking for food. One of the troopers was sentenced to five years in prison; the other eight were either acquitted or are appealing lesser charges. During the pretrial investigation, officials discovered that a handful of soldiers in the Airborne, calling themselves the Rebels, had adopted the Confederate flag as their banner and openly...
...segment tied to a tree while a substance that looks like dirt is being dumped on his head. The tape from Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang out and eat wheat. They never work. They're slobs. And they stink.'' Another soldier calls the U.N. peacekeeping mission ``Operation Snatch N ____...Hold...
...disappointment such wide-eyed anticipation could quickly lead to. Still, the eager welcome came as a relief to Sergeant Erik Bartkowiak. He recalled his last experience administering U.S. foreign policy -- one he doesn't care to repeat -- in Somalia. There, the first words Bartkowiak heard, shouted by a Somali child, were "F--- you, American." Confused, ambiguous, frustrating though it was, the first week of Clinton's Haiti policy was at least better than that...