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  • Somalis Wish American Troops Were Back (rot'n hell alert)

    12/14/2002 10:08:45 AM PST · by Dallas · 97 replies · 576+ views
    MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Ten years ago, Somalis welcomed American troops as saviors in their starved and battered land. Then they drove them out. Now many wish the Americans would come back. Instead, they find themselves on President Bush's terrorism blacklist. "We need them desperately. We need a rescue mission from the Americans," said Mohamed Jama Furuh, manager of the empty port where containers and cranes sit rusting in the sun. If they hadn't left, he said, "Somalia would have been one of the developing countries. It would not be the graveyard it is now." Since 1991 there has been...