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MOGADISHU, Somalia: Presaging a new wave of Somalian violence, the son of a dead Somali warlord took his father's place on Sunday, vowing to preserve the political structure created by his father. Hussein Mohamed Aidid, a former U.S. Marine reservist, served with U.S. forces sent to Somalia in 1992. His father was killed last Thursday. Aidid was named interim president of Somalia by his clan and promptly promised to pacify the troubled nation by eliminating his rivals. Aidid's men killed two gunmen of Ali Madhi's faction Sunday, just days after two other warlords declared a unilateral cease...
Moreover, the blood of an American soldier is no redder than that of a Somalian peasant. If one soldier dies for every hundred Serbs forced to put down their weapons, the United States will have achieved a remarkable success while putting to shame the isolationist European powers personified by Great Britain's ineffective Lord Owen...
Americans were rightly outraged at the sight of Somalian thugs waylaying humanitarian aid. But it should have been obvious from the start that to effectively "restore hope" would require the disarming of the Somalian warlords, as U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had originally requested...
...such a settlement were to rely on anything more than token U.N. military support, however, it might be doomed. Boutros-Ghali notes that U.N. members have stubbornly not put up the money that could finance Somalian peace -- funds needed to organize police forces or a judicial system, for example. So American troops might have to pull out with no settlement in place, and if Somalia remains dangerous, it seems unlikely that other troops will stay after the Yanks go. Boutros-Ghali remarks that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does...
...results were visible in the tracer fire illuminating Mogadishu's sky. This time the U.N. was one of the combatants. For four nights the Somalian capital echoed with deafening explosions as U.S. AC-130H ground-support planes and Cobra attack helicopters pounded the capital. Aidid's compound, arms caches and other locations took withering fire. Before U.N. ground forces advanced on his main base, a loudspeaker truck gave his gunmen several warnings to surrender. But soldiers came under fire as they moved in, provoking heavy retaliation from...