Word: warlords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the peace or making war? Renewed attacks early last week by American helicopter gunships against warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid killed 54 Somali civilians, according to International Red Cross estimates. Outraged mobs retaliated by killing four foreign journalists. Italian General Bruno Loi, commander of a 2,400-man contingent, sharply criticized the U.N.'s "shoot first" policies, causing a crisis between his government, which backed...
...motel on the road to Mogadishu -- you never see the gold vase again -- you never get any intelligence. It requires a street wisdom suddenly in a particular area which is terribly hard for an intelligence service to produce when the President suddenly says, "Get me that damned warlord...
...resumed limited food distribution in southern Mogadishu after two weeks of fighting between its forces and those of Somali General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It also issued wanted posters for the fugitive warlord, and put up a reward for his capture. Aidid, meanwhile, taunted his pursuers in a broadcast carried by NBC and the Voice of America. "You know," he said, "I am here in the city of Mogadishu and I am protected by God and my people...
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...