- Title: SOMALIA: LAST UNITED STATES OFFICIALS WITHDRAW FROM MOGADISHU
- Date: 14th September 1993
- Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (SEPTEMBER 9-11, 1994) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 1. GV UNITED STATES (U.S.) FLAG FLYING OVER U.S. COMPOUND 0.08 2. GV MACHINE GUN PLACEMENT GUARDING COMPOUND (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. GV U.S. VEHICLES READY FOR TRANSPORT 0.22 4. GV PAKISTANI UNITED NATIONS TROOPS WITH FORMER U.S. ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) (2 SHOTS) 0.27 5. GV PAKISTANI SOLDIER IN APC (AUDIO OF SNIPER FIRE) 0.32 6. SCU U.N. SPOKESMAN GEORGE BENNET SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 0.49 7. GV PAKISTANI TROOPS WALKING 0.53 8. GV CONVOY TRANSPORTING U.S. MACHINERY TO PORT FOR WITHDRAWAL 1.06 9. GV U.S. COBRA HELICOPTER OVERHEAD 1.10 10. GV TRUCKS SHIFTING CONTAINERS OF U.S. EQUIPMENT TO PORT (2 SHOTS) 1.18 11. GV PATIENT BEING CARRIED INTO PAKISTANI FIELD HOSPITAL 1.28 12. GV DOCTORS TREATING PATIENTS (3 SHOTS) 1.36 13. GV TRUCKS LINED UP ON DOCK/ PORT (2 SHOTS) 1.46 SEQUENCE 6 TRANSCRIPT: BENNET :"CLEARLY WE'RE DISAPPOINTED THAT THE PACE OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS HASN'T BEEN MUCH QUICKER AND INDEED WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS GETTING FED UP WITH THE LACK OF PROGRESS AND IS CONSIDERING IT'S OPTIONS" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
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- Country: Somalia
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- Story Text: The last 80 United States (U.S.) officials began a withdrawal from Mogadishu on Friday (September 9) as the United Nations (U.N.) considered whether to complete its operation there because of security concerns and lack of political progress.
The U.S. diplomats and marines began the withdrawal from Somalia on September 9 and are due to complete it by Thursday (September 15).
The withdrawal, ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration, follows an increase in violence in Mogadishu and in other parts of the country. International peace efforts appear to have failed to achieve an end to the fighting between rival Somali clans.
To date, more than 100 U.N. peacekeepers have died in Somalia.
Before the withdrawal began, the U.S. had on loan to the United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM) 80 M-60 tanks, 12 Cobra attack helicopters and scores or armoured personnel carriers (APCs), trucks and water purification trucks.
The United Nations has also made a decision to cut its force to 15,000 from a peak of 21,000 and is pulling back troops from outlying centres.
U.N. spokesman George Bennet said Somalia has a thriving economy in many ways, but that the country desperately needs a governing body. He said the U.N. is aware that the international community is getting tired of the strife in Somalia.
Activity in Mogadishu's port takes place under the watchful eye of the U.N. military, which guard cargoes against bandits and thieves.
Somali grapefruit was loaded onto ships for export to Europe.
U.S. aid was being loaded from a packed warehouse onto trucks for transport to the country's interior.
At Mogadishu's only functional hospital, hundreds of patients are treated by U.N. doctors daily for disease, malnutrition and gunshot wounds.
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