Word: warlorded
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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...
Such sentiments were widespread in Aidid's Mogadishu neighborhoods, which meant the U.N. was winning the battle against the warlord but losing the war to coax a workable society out of Somalia's anarchy. At the White House, the . motive for intervention was simple: to restore respect for the blue helmets...
Less than a year ago, Aidid's talent for milking the countryside and extorting money from foreign relief groups had earned him control of almost half the country. A defeat at the hands of another warlord in October and the subsequent occupation of his territory by U.S. troops diminished his influence, making him wary, then openly hostile. As his dreams of a presidency faded, said a relief worker, "Aidid was just itching to push the U.N. to the limit." While he never expected his belligerence to culminate in an international warrant for his arrest, he preferred to fight rather than...
Clinton answers a warlord's attack with a predawn raid...