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- Maybe in war-torn Somalia or someplace like that.† (source)
- When the British granted Somalia its independence in 1960, the Bantu were hounded, abused, and brutalized by ethnic Somalis.† (source)
- Their first son, killed in a firefight in Somalia.† (source)
- Edna became her country's first qualified nurse-midwife, the first Somali woman to drive, and then Somalia's first lady, period.† (source)
- Then, in 1960, Somalia became independent.† (source)
- At this latitude, Africa was just the Horn: Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia.† (source)
- REBELS STRIKE MILITARY BASE IN SOMALIA, KILLING 34 U.S. TROOPS… STOCK MARKET GAINS 312 POINTS ON NEWS OF HOUSING REBOUND… KILLER KNOWN AS BONEMAN TAKES ANOTHER VICTIM AFTER TWO-YEAR HIATUS… CHINA… But Ryan's mind was locked on the story that had just rolled off the screen.† (source)
- More than anything, the men are afraid of a repeat of Somalia, where crowds first greeted American troops with smiles and later dragged their mutilated bodies through the streets, laughing as they did so.† (source)
- In his opinion, Somalia was a much better place for that sort of attire.† (source)
- For the next few years, as I reported the news of modern tragedies in places such as Bosnia and Somalia, my thoughts often returned to Eyam, and I began to realize that it was this story, above all others, I longed to tell.† (source)
- The newest guy was a Ranger who was wounded in Somalia during the "Black Hawk Down" battle.† (source)
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- The first was from an obscure cell in lawless Libya, followed soon after by alShabaab, the Somalia-based group that had terrorized East Africa.† (source)
- Or perhaps this was a relic from the French colonies in Somalia and Djibouti.† (source)
- Delta whisked him away to a prison on an island off the coast of Somalia.† (source)
- Admiral Jonathan Howe, Special Representative for Somalia to the United Nations, was horrified.† (source)
- Aidid tried to downplay his losses, but he would never rule over a united Somalia.† (source)
- Howard Wasdin checks out in Mogadishu, Somalia, on the afternoon of October 3, 1993.† (source)
- I truly feel that this is the path God intended for me when he spared my life in Somalia.† (source)
- The UN and Americans want to take over Somalia, burn the Koran, and take your firstborn children.† (source)
- Somalia lost the assistance of the international community to bring peace and food to the country.† (source)
- Then the two clans fought each other for control of Somalia.† (source)
- Italy dumped trillions of lire into Somalia for "aid."† (source)
- In 1949, the UN gave Italy trusteeship of parts of Somalia.† (source)
- It was my most successful op in Somalia, and I had to disobey direct orders to get it done.† (source)
- Italy had occupied Somalia from 1927 to 1941.† (source)
- It had been the largest battle in Somalia to that point.† (source)
- Tostan has already moved on to work in Gambia, Guinea, and Mauritania, and it has also opened up programs in Somalia and Djibouti in East Africa.† (source)
- Having never seen them in his time living in a windowless dwelling in Somalia or his makeshift shelter at a Kenyan refugee camp, he had no idea how they worked or what they did.† (source)
- Master Sergeant Randy Shughart, a Delta sniper, had made the drawing, and the original was found after he was killed in Somalia.† (source)
- Hargeisa, where Edna grew up, is a town in the harsh desert of what was then the British protectorate of Somaliland, later Somalia, and now the breakaway republic of Somaliland.† (source)
- Neighboring Somalia decided this was the time to press its claims on disputed territory in the Ogaden Desert that even the vultures did not want.† (source)
- The boys came from Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, and while most spoke functional English, they had little in common with one another.† (source)
- World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—now from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.† (source)
- France had colonized Djibouti and parts of Somalia, and they had even jockeyed with the English in India before settling for a foothold in Pondicherry.† (source)
- Early signs, in Somalia at least, are encouraging, and Molly is already wondering aloud whether the Tostan model could be used to help end other pernicious social customs such as honor killings.† (source)
- She married Somaliland's prime minister, Ibrahim Egal, who became Somalia's prime minister in 1967 after the former British and Italian Somali territories merged.† (source)
- Now the test is whether her model will succeed as well in Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, and Central African Republic--some of which are wracked by conflict that makes work in these countries dangerous.† (source)
- So when Edna retired from the World Health Organization in 1997, she announced to the Somaliland government--which by then had won a civil war and had broken off from Somalia--that she was going to sell her Mercedes and take the proceeds, as well as her savings and pension, to build a hospital.† (source)
- But she dreamed of starting a hospital in her homeland--the hospital my dad would have wanted to work in--and in the early 1980s she began building her own private hospital in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.† (source)
- Aidid's clan (Habar Gidir), Ali Mandi Muhammad's clan (Abgaal), and other clans overthrew Somalia's dictator.† (source)
- Khat, a flowering plant native to Somalia, contains a stimulant in the leaves that causes excitement, loss of appetite, and euphoria.† (source)
- A note found on Atto advised him to meet with reporters to set up a negotiation session with the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM).† (source)
- In the morning darkness of September 18, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, another SEAL and I crept over a wall and up to the top of a six-story tower.† (source)
- Our assets informed us of a trail to be used to supply Aidid with Stinger missiles: Afghanistan to Sudan to Ethiopia to Somalia.† (source)
- In Somalia, the CIA agents had their work cut out for them—it's hard to steal a government's secrets where there is no government.† (source)
- Although I didn't know it at the time, the al Qaeda advisers in Somalia probably included Osama Bin Laden's military chief, Mohammed Atef.† (source)
- After Somalia, I told him I loved him for the first time—then I told him every time I saw him after that.† (source)
- Later, I also received a whack on the pee-pee for disobeying a direct order and helping the teenaged Somali boy who'd stepped on a land mine—my most successful op in Somalia.† (source)
- Pasha stood two stories tall and was surrounded by an enormous concrete wall, the house of a wealthy doctor who left with his family when Somalia became too volatile for them.† (source)
- Under the black cloak of Sunday morning, we flew on a Black Hawk helicopter three miles northwest across town to the Mogadiscio Stadium- Somalia's national stadium for soccer and other events, seating thirty-five thousand people.† (source)
- We shouldn't have become involved in Somalia's civil war—this was their problem, not ours— but once we committed, we should've finished what we started: a lesson we are required to keep relearning over and over again.† (source)
- At the Team compound in Dam Neck, Virginia, Little Big Man, Sourpuss, Casanova, and I joined in getting ready to go to Somalia: training, prepping our gear, growing beards, and letting our hair grow out.† (source)
- My citation read: The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star medal to Hull Maintenance Technician First Class Howard E. Wasdin, United States Navy, for service set forth in the following citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against a hostile force during operation UNOSOM II in Mogadishu, Somalia on 3 & 4 October 1993.† (source)
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