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- <text id=93TT2416>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Choppers and Snipers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- Choppers and Snipers
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Another U.S. Marine is killed as Somalia looks more like a war
- zone
- </p>
- <p> Helicopter gunship attacks, ground raids, more casualties--the news from Somalia increasingly resembles reports from a
- war zone. To enforce a cease-fire between rival warlords, four
- rocket- and cannon-firing U.S. Cobra choppers teamed up with
- Belgian paratroopers to rout forces advancing on the southern
- port of Kismayu; reports had eight Somalis killed and about 40
- wounded. On Saturday at dusk, 700 U.S. troops backed by
- helicopters swept into the crossroads town of Afgoi to flush out
- bandit gangs that have been ambushing supplies en route to the
- famine belt. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal
- Anthony Botello became the third American to die, when he was
- shot by snipers while leading a night patrol.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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