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- <text id=93TT1469>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: Excessive Force
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- WORLD
- Excessive Force
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- A U.S. Marine is court-martialed for shooting a Somali teenager
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- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>HARRY CONDE HAD HAD ENOUGH. WHEN A 13-YEAR-old reached into the
- Marine gunnery sergeant's humvee on a busy Mogadishu street and
- snatched the prescription sunglasses from his face last
- February, the 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico wheeled and shot
- the boy in the stomach, also wounding a bystander. He claimed
- self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from
- brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A
- court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault,
- stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve
- thousand U.S. servicemen remain in Somalia, though Joint Chiefs
- Chairman Colin Powell, who visited them last week, says most
- should depart in the "not too distant future." For many, even
- the meanest streets of L.A. and Miami will seem a welcome
- change.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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