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<text id=93TT1133>
<title>
Mar. 08, 1993: The U.S.'s Honeymoon Is Over
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 18
WORLD
The U.S.'s Honeymoon Is Over
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<p>Coalition forces face the reality of Somalia's convoluted conflict
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<p> Just as Americans were laying plans to part company on the best
of terms, the scene in Somalia turned nasty. On Wednesday demonstrators
set up burning roadblocks along the main thoroughfares in Mogadishu
and pelted passing U.S. servicemen with chunks of concrete.
Banners paraded past the Marine base at the old American embassy
read THIS IS SOMALI SAND NOT AMERICAN SAND. Later in the week,
fierce fire fights erupted in several parts of the city between
UNITAF (Unified Task Force) troops and Somalis thought to be
loyal to General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, leaving five American
servicemen and two Nigerians injured and an estimated 10 Somalis
dead. The unrest, the most violent involving UNITAF troops since
Operation Restore Hope began in December, was triggered by the
takeover of the southern port town of Kismayu by gunmen loyal
to General Mohammed Said Hersi, a.k.a. "Morgan." His men reportedly
crept into Kismayu Monday night and opened fire on the militia
of Omar Jess, a local warlord with close ties to Aidid. Angered
that American forces in the town allowed this to happen, Aidid
accused them of engineering the attack and called for widespread
demonstrations against the foreign force. Relief operations
in the capital ground to a halt as aid workers confined themselves
to their heavily guarded compounds after the fatal shooting
of an Irish nurse earlier in the week.
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