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		                            BASED ON AN ACTUAL EVENT
        		                
                                
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		                            Only the dead have seen the end of war.
        		                
                                
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		                            Plato
        		                
                                
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		                            SOMALIA - EAST AFRICA
        		                
                                
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		                            1992
        		                
                                
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		                            Years of warfare among rival clans causes famine on a biblical scale.
        		                
                                
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		                            300,000 civilians die of starvation.
        		                
                                
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		                            Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the most powerful of the warlords, rules the capital Mogadishu.
        		                
                                
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		                            He seizes international food shipments at the ports. Hunger is his weapon.
        		                
                                
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		                            The world responds. Behind a force of 20,000 U.S. Marines, food is delivered and order is restored.
        		                
                                
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		                            April 1993
        		                
                                
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		                            Aidid waits until the Marines withdraw, and then declares war on the remaining U.N. peacekeepers.
        		                
                                
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		                            In June, Aidid's militia ambush and slaughter 24 Pakistani soldiers, and begin targeting American personnel.