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President Clinton dispatched 400 of the Army's elite Rangers to Somalia, beefing up the U.S. presence there following a series of attacks on American troops that killed four. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said U.S. forces will stay until the Somali capital is calm, rebel leaders give up their heavy weapons, and a national police force is in place...
...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...
...mission were reassessed. The Germans, who have sent only 250 of a promised 1,700-strong contingent, grumbled that it was a mistake to have soldiers in Somalia at all. In Washington, Democrat Robert Byrd thundered a warning that "the Senate has not bought into a police action against Somali warlords...
Gone are the tragic images of vacant-eyed skeletal children dying by the thousands in Somali villages. In their place are equally troubling images of shell-shattered civilians and Mogadishu mobs, fists raised in anger against the mounting violence. "It is more dangerous today in Mogadishu than at any time during the civil war," says Howard Bell, country director for the relief agency CARE...