Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 detained, four died and 20 were wounded in the attack and subsequent street clashes...
...initial mission a success. But the primary target of the attack, Aidid himself, remained at large. "He's not out of business," said U.S. Major General Thomas Montgomery, deputy commander of the U.N. forces in Mogadishu, "but I bet he's pretty shaky today." To keep pressure on the warlord, a second air assault pounded the area near his private compound for 25 minutes early Sunday...
Farewell to My Concubine spans more than a half-century of Chinese history, from the Warlord Era through the Japanese occupation up to and past the egregious humiliations of the Cultural Revolution. Because the main characters who reflect and endure these tumultuous times are performing artists -- two stars of the Peking Opera, stalwart Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and comely Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) -- the movie conjures up dozens of American movies, like Singin' in the Rain and For the Boys, in which popular entertainers put aside their differences before they put on the greasepaint. There is, of course, a pretty woman...
...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...
...troops since Operation Restore Hope began in December, was triggered by the takeover of the southern port town of Kismayu by gunmen loyal to General Mohammed Said Hersi, a.k.a. "Morgan." His men reportedly crept into Kismayu Monday night and opened fire on the militia of Omar Jess, a local warlord with close ties to Aidid. Angered that American forces in the town allowed this to happen, Aidid accused them of engineering the attack and called for widespread demonstrations against the foreign force. Relief operations in the capital ground to a halt as aid workers confined themselves to their heavily guarded...