Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...armored romp through Iraq might be perplexed by last week's action in Mogadishu. Under the command of a Turkish general who was advised by a retired U.S. admiral, U.N. Special Envoy Jonathan Howe, troops from five countries set about destroying the power base of Somalia's most notorious warlord, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, beneath a hail of missile fire and cannon bursts from helicopter gunships overhead. Troops from the U.S., Pakistan, Morocco, France and Italy searched for Aidid. Prodded by Washington, the U.N. wanted to punish him for ordering an attack June 5 that killed 23 blue-helmeted...
...casualties. But beyond venting anger at the U.N. killings, it was hard to see that Washington had moved much closer to cleaning up Somalia. Pentagon officials told TIME that a follow-up % attack on Aidid's stronghold in the city of Galkaio will soon follow. Until and unless the warlord is captured, Clinton will be unable to call it a mission accomplished...
Clinton answers a warlord's attack with a predawn raid...
...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...