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<text id=91TT0111>
<title>
Jan. 21, 1991: World Notes:Somalia
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Jan. 21, 1991 January 15:Deadline For War
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
SOMALIA
Plunging into Anarchy
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<p> The government has lost all control in Mogadishu, and chaos
has taken over. Armed mobs, some of them renegade soldiers from
President Mohammed Siad Barre's army, roam the city shooting
and looting. Troops shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is great!)
invaded the Roman Catholic cathedral, drove the congregation
out with tear gas and truncheons, then set fire to the
building. An Italian priest who witnessed the attack said many
worshipers were killed.
</p>
<p> As rebel fighters from the United Somali Congress called in
reinforcements, the U.S., Italy and France flew 800 diplomats
and other foreign residents to safety in separate rescue
missions last week. Soldiers looted the American embassy as
soon as the last helicopter took off. Reported Italian
Ambassador Mario Sica, who left Saturday: "The city is being
sacked as in the days of Genghis Khan."
</p>
<p> Holed up with the remnants of his army, Siad Barre offered
again last week to negotiate with the three main insurgent
groups that have overturned his 21-year dictatorship. A rebel
spokesman in Rome said they "would not be that stupid."
</p>
</body></article>
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