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...story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris ("desert flower" in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather. She landed in London as a servant to wealthy relatives and worked as a cleaner at McDonald's before becoming a supermodel, a James Bond girl, a U.N. special ambassador and a best-selling writer. Her second book, Desert Dawn, was published in Britain last week. Hard to believe? Only until you meet Dirie. A warm but somehow elusive woman...
...Black Hawk Down CRITICISM It used real aircraft, but the film cut the number of men defending the chopper and put names on the helmets?a practice discontinued years ago. Somali casualties remain nameless. RESPONSE Director Ridley Scott was worried that the audience would lose track of the characters. No comment from the studio about the portrayal of Somalis...
...Pentagon loves Ridley Scott's film, and with good reason: It shows the truly heroic efforts of a small band of American soldiers fighting against thousands of Mogadishu residents in a 1993 street battle that killed 1,000 Somalis and 17 Americans. But Mark Bowden's meticulously researched text also tells the Somali point of view, the other, equally important half of the story. What emerges here is that while the Americans believed they were simply embarked on a noble mission to ensure that food reached the hungry, many Somalis saw the U.S. forces as intruders meddling aggressively in their...
CRITICISM It used real aircraft, but the film cut the number of men defending the chopper and put names on the helmets, a practice discontinued years ago. Somali casualties remain nameless...
...Somalia became a focus of attention again last week when it emerged that the U.S. and nato allies have stepped up surveillance flights over suspected al-Qaeda camps there. The Navy has deployed ships off the Somali coast to interdict suspicious vessels. State Department envoys are also visiting Mogadishu, urging its year-old transitional government to share intelligence on al-Qaeda and warning that Somalia could become the next target if it harbors the terrorists. But the U.S. doesn't think al-Qaeda fighters have reached there yet. "Obviously, Somalia is a place of concern," says a senior State Department...