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<text id=91TT0276>
<title>
Feb. 11, 1991: World Notes:Somalia
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 11, 1991 Saddam's Weird War
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 61
World Notes
SOMALIA
The Price Of Victory
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<p> The capital city of Mogadishu resembled a charnel house last
week after victorious rebels drove President Mohammed Siad
Barre into exile, ending 21 years of dictatorial rule. Dogs
devoured hundreds of corpses in the streets following a
month-long campaign that killed more than 5,000 civilians and
forced tens of thousands to flee. Starving survivors had only
fetid river water to drink, and looters reduced shattered
buildings to empty shells.
</p>
<p> Barre fled the city in a tank minutes before the insurgents
stormed the presidential palace. He reportedly escaped into
neighboring Kenya, where authorities said they would grant him
temporary asylum.
</p>
<p> Prospects for the new government in Mogadishu seemed bleak.
The coalition of rebels, which represents three Somali clans
that have feuded for centuries, named hotel owner Ali Mahdi
Mohammed, 52, interim President until elections could be held.
But Mahdi's party, the United Somali Congress, grew angry at
his appointment by a clique of elders and attacked the action
as "hasty" and "unnatural." The tenuous troika could swiftly
come unglued.
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