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...started with an assault on Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers in Mogadishu and escalated into a bombing campaign against the attack's instigator, Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Finally, U.N. troops stormed Aidid's stronghold, forcing him to flee, and to remain separated from most of his supporters. Five U.N. troops and over 100 Somali militia were killed; 46 peacekeepers and more than 100 Somalis were wounded...
...Eastern time on Friday, two AC-130H Spectre gunships and American Cobra attack helicopters thundered over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the next several hours, flares and tracer bullets lit the predawn skies of the Somali capital as the aircraft pummeled six sites of strategic importance to the country's paramount warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. U.S. forces hit Aidid's radio station, four weapons and ammunitions dumps, and an abandoned cigarette factory that had been used to fire on the U.N. troops. At least 200 Somalis were...
...White House continued to equivocate over its choice to fill the Supreme Court seat of Byron White. The President seemed ready to name federal Appeals Court Judge Stephen Breyer, with whom he had lunch on Friday afternoon. But after devoting most of his attention to weekend attacks against a Somali warlord, Clinton postponed his decision, saying he wanted to "reflect more." One possible reason: reports that Breyer has a "Zoe Baird problem" -- he failed to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic employee...
...forces are supposed to complete the disarming of Somalia's warlord gangs and free-lance bandits and create a police force capable of maintaining law and order, two tasks the U.S.-led contingent barely began. The warlords who have spilled so much Somali blood have in fact gained undeserved authority because the Americans felt compelled to negotiate with them to head off clashes between their fighters and U.S. troops...
After nearly five months in Somalia, U.S. troops, in preparation for the United Nations' assumption of full control of the country, handed over supervision of Mogadishu to more than 4,000 Pakistani soldiers. The U.S. will transfer the Somali peacekeeping mission this week to a 28,000-member U.N. force composed of troops from more than 20 nations. About 4,000 American Army troops will stay behind. At their base in Merca, 56 miles southwest of Mogadishu, Pakistani troops raise their flag while Americans salute in the background...