Word: warlords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flash of violence, warlord Mohammed Aideed launched an ambush on Pakistani peacekeepers, killing 24. His headquarters and followers were soon attacked, but he remained at large and continues to mount operations against U.S. peacekeepers, often singling out Americans. As the violence has mounted, so have the calls for withdrawal...
...surrender progress because of the ambitions of one warlord would be a monumental defeat. The precedent that such a retreat would leave behind would haunt us for years to come. Gunmen around the world would know that if they target Americans for long enough, retreat is likely. In the coming years, American soldiers will be in places just as dangerous as Somalia. Are we going to send that precedent with them...
...Somali warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid escalated his assaults against U.N. peacekeepers early last week, four U.S. soldiers were killed when their humvee all-purpose vehicle was blown up by a remote-control bomb. An outraged President Clinton vowed to take "appropriate action" that might include sending in "special forces and other creative military operations" to hunt down Aidid. But Senate Republican leader Bob Dole urged the Administration to review and possibly scale back its military presence in Somalia...
Cash has become a new weapon of choice in Somalia. First the United Nations offered $25,000 for information leading to the capture of Somali warlord MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID; now, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Aidid is offering $1 million for the assassination of retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, the U.N.'s special envoy to Somalia. Howe has been a particularly outspoken critic of Aidid...
...chief of peacekeeping operations, ordered General Bruno Loi, Italy's military commander in Somalia, to be "rotated back home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted a U.N. official, should "either get on the team...