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<text id=93TT2317>
<title>
Jan. 18, 1993: Shootout in Mogadishu
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
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</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
WORLD, Page 19
Shootout in Mogadishu
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<body>
<p>As diplomats meet, U.S. forces take the offensive against bandits
</p>
<p> Mogadishu, no stranger to the pop-pop of isolated rifle fire,
suddenly shook from the thunderous roar of a full-scale
military assault. For 20 seemingly endless minutes, U.S. forces
directed a massive array of firepower from AH-1 Cobra attack
helicopters, M1A1 Abrams tanks and amphibious assault vehicles,
all aimed at two arsenals controlled by warlord General Mohammed
Farrah Aidid in the Somali capital's northwest. The offensive
was ostensibly in retaliation for sniper fire at U.S. troops,
but the blazing-gun approach carried a clear warning to
Somalia's increasingly bold gunmen that they continue to lurk
and menace at their peril. Perhaps 21 Somalis were killed in the
confrontation, the bloodiest since Operation Restore Hope began
five weeks ago.
</p>
<p> Aidid also figured prominently in last week's diplomatic
developments. His supporters were widely believed to have
organized a stone-throwing demonstration against the visit of
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to
Mogadishu. The warlord was equally obstreperous at the start of
a U.N.-sponsored meeting involving no fewer than 14 feuding
Somali factions, held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
But he and other participants eventually agreed to a cease-fire
scheduled to take effect this week and a formal "reconciliation
conference" in March.
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