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...African Union (AU) troops to monitor a nonexistent cease-fire. But the troops are under-trained, under-funded, and under-supplied. The AU’s mandate does not even extend to civilian protection; these troops cannot stop killings and are useless. And since the embarrassing quagmire of Somalia in 1993 and the killing of Belgian United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda in 1994, there seems to be no political will to send American or European troops to fight another African...
...Force Colonel Tyler Putnam, one of Landstuhl's trauma surgeons. "This is unlike anything we've ever experienced, or maybe will ever experience again." Few doubt that the evacuation system has saved soldiers' lives. But it was born out of a bitter failure - the Oct. 3, 1993 debacle in Somalia. There, 18 American soldiers died and some 80 were injured while pinned down in a hostile corner of the capital, Mogadishu, with no way out. Just two days earlier, a U.S. medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton...
Maskhadov had been elected President of Chechnya in a somewhat dubious but mostly fair 1997 election, after successfully leading the Chechen resistance movement from 1994-1996. After his electoral victory, however, he was unable to establish an effective state and the country disintegrated into a Somalia-like state of warlordism. In response to a Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya’s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate...
This salient fact was observed by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which went into force in 2002 and forbade the execution of juveniles, has been signed by every nation in the world except the U.S. and Somalia. Somalia is in a state of anarchy. The U.N. is not normally a place for bandwagoning; given the vast number of countries that exist, there are dozens of cultural perspectives on the place of capital punishment in society. That representatives of each of these viewpoints could come to similar conclusions is prima facie...
...closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon has increased since the Feb. 14 car bomb in Beirut that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and which the Lebanese opposition has blamed on Syria; Damascus denies involvement. A Fresh Start SOMALIA Hundreds of cheering Somalis in the northern town of Jowhar greeted President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Gedi as they arrived on a six-town visit from exile in Kenya, their first since the formation of a power-sharing government last year. Yusuf and Gedi are assessing...