Mogadishu place
also: DISH, Mudisho, Mugadishu, the dish
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▶ 19:02
The Bush administration had actually evacuated its embassy in Mogadishu. Until then, the Somali capital, several thousand American citizens left at the same time that the Gulf War had started, which was well before that. By Bush's final day…
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One reason the TV crews were set up on the beach was that the CIA cleared the way. Sounds like a setup. Michael Shacklin, former deputy director of the station in Mogadishu, returned to help make this intervention possible. Isn't that nice?…
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Shanklin arrived at the airfield north of the city with the CIA team to reactivate his old network. Among his assets had been a top aide to Mohammad Farhad Hadin, one of the most powerful warlords who controlled much of Mogadishu and was re…
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most of them American, walking into a death trap. The night of the landing, Shacklin's people watched the beaches. American troops quickly dispersed through Mogadishu, creating a main base at the international airport. Heavy transports bega…
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You know, while our troops are still on the ground, we're no longer just feeding people. We're now going to actually get into action. To accomplish this, the U.N. appointed a special representative, an American retired Admiral Jonathan Howe…
▶ 26:55
an attitude that did not serve him well in Mogadishu. They called it the dish. That was the nickname for the Somali capital. Spooks and soldiers labored amidst intense heat. The services did what they could to pass time. One American recall…
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He had also had an abbreviated tour in Liberia, which is really interesting. Shacklin's request was for a place where the water runs and the lights work. Instead, he got Somalia. As the UN built up, Shacklin's relationship became complicate…
▶ 29:34
Langley's cadre for the DISH was interesting. The DO clearly chose security specialists over covert operators. African Division Chief William Pickney, a veteran of the 1980s ISI Afghan war, reached out to Garrett Jones, then completing his …
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In late August, Task Force Ranger, a contingent of 400 special ops troops with 16 helicopters, a Delta Force element plus a company of Rangers deployed to the dish. Mortars shelled the airport as they landed. Welcome to the dish. Major Gene…
▶ 36:26
telling Garrison that the CIA worked for him. Case officer Buffalo came with Task Force Rangers as an intelligence support team. Yeah, because we want CIA being our intelligence. Garrison sent one of his own people to the CIA station as a l…
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We still haven't learned that lesson, by the way. About the time Task Force Ranger reached the dish, the CIA lost its prize agent. Playing Russian roulette with aides, the wrong chamber in his revolver came up and the man pointed the gun at…
▶ 39:01
but deteriorating security now forced Condor to use a protective detail. 15 men, including four Navy SEALs, restricting its mobility. The safe house Shacklin used in northern Mogadishu sprouted so many antennas, the locals called it the CNN…
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from the helicopters and captured the occupants. It just so happened to be UN relief workers. Then came an operation targeting the compound used by the Russians during the days of Syed Bari. The Rangers got into a firefight, but there was n…
▶ 44:43
an eyes-only message complaining that the Delta Force had been misused, that this myopic focus on Hadid would not solve all of Somali's problems, and that Jonathan Howe had no idea what he was doing. Things are bad and getting worse, was hi…
▶ 49:17
He got an intelligence star. That's just crazy. The Senate Armed Service Committee and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board both decided after study that the intelligence support to Somalia had been as good as could be expect…
▶ 50:31
that we've talked about, is on the agenda multiple times at the National Security Council. Not one time until all of the dead bodies. The Somalia tragedy changed a few things, according to the National Security Council Executive Secretary N…
▶ 54:58
But Les Aspin used the Somalia disaster to press Clinton for either a presidential intelligence advisory board study or a presidential commission made up entirely of its own board members. So let us look at ourselves because I'm not going a…
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whose agency Counterspies had finally identified as responsible for the loss of many agents. Ames' arrest focused enormous attention on the Directorate of Operations and led to demands for a review. Virginia Republican Senator John Warner s…
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So you get a bunch of military people killed, a dead guy drug through the streets for absolutely no reason. And we're going to put you in charge of everything. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And as usual, thank everyone for attending her…