USA wants to exit Somalia

Title

USA wants to exit Somalia

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

5 Oct 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:31

Description

Paul Woodley reports on the US wanting to withdraw its troops from the multinational peacekeeping force in Somalia as fighting worsens in Mogadishu and a US helicopter pilot Mike Duran was taken hostage and paraded on television. Includes speeches by President Bill Clinton to US equivalent of the TUC (not named); US Defence Secretary Les Aspin; Senator Robert Byrd; Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Bill Clinton; Robert Byrd; Les Aspin; Dianne Feinstein

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Armed forces; UN; Hostages; Foreign policy; Peacekeeping; Somalia; Mogadishu; Mike Duran

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