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SOMALIA: ABDI QAYDID'S ARREST IN SWEDEN AND WESTERN MEDIA October 21, 2005
Many leading western newspapers from Washington Post and Minneapolis Star Tribune in the US to The Australian in Australia picked Mr. Qaydid’s misfortune in Sweden. These papers put him on the same page with “Black Hawk Down†1993 American and General Aidid fight in which eighteen American soldiers were killed.
Mr. Qaybdiid was arrested Monday after Somalis who live in Sweden reported to the police about his involvement in Somalia’s civil war, and alleged he killed members of their family members.
Western media is reporting that Mr. Qaybdid was the commander of Aidid’s militia who fought the Americans in Mogadishu streets.
President Bill Clinton ordered a quick pullout from Somalia after that confrontation. But the scars it left behind are still clearly visible. Failed American and United Nations interventions in Somalia will dictate decisions regarding UN and western interventions of international conflicts for sometime to come. A good example is Rwanda’s civil war in which over a million people were killed in few months. The UN and the world were mere spectators because of what happened in Somalia.
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