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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...