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President: ABDIKASSIM
Salad Hassan (since 26 August 2000); note -chosen for a
three-year
term by National Assembly serving as a transitional
government;
The present political situation is still unstable, particularly in the
south, with interclan fighting and random banditry
Prime
Minister :HASSAN Abshir Farah (since 12 November 2001) |
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1992
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President
Bush ordered the U.S. military to begin a humanitarian relief airlift
to Somalia.
Only
solution
to mass starvation (5000 Somalis were dying per week as of October
1992) was massive ship and overland truck transport.with military
protection of the shipments against the predatory warlords who
controlled Mogadishu's seaport and airport.
December:
President Bush ordered successful military operation w/ other
countries to stop starvation |
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1991
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| Ambassador: James
Keough Bishop |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander:
Watchstanders: Bradley
James Smith, |
US
Embassy Closed - Severing Diplomatic Relations
The newly constructed U.S.
Embassy invaded by bandits, American staff escape on
helicopters operating in the nearby Gulf war. |
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1990
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1989
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| Ambassador: T.
Frank Crigler |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander: GySgt. John G. Cotton
Watchstanders:
Sgt.
Mike Chinn, Cpl. Jeff Davis, Cpl. Tracy Kruse, Sgt. Glenn Nelson, Sgt.
Charles P.
O'Connell, Cpl. Darren Ritter, Sgt. Bryan K. Robinson, Sgt.
Graham Shaw, |
| US
Congress cuts off military aid to Somalia |
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1988
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| Ambassador: T.
Frank Crigler |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander: GySgt. John G. Cotton
Watchstanders:
Oyeoru Ngbada Aboki, Sgt.
Mike Chinn, Cpl. Jeff Davis, Cpl. Rob Denning, Cpl. Tracy Kruse, Sgt.
Glenn Nelson, Sgt.
Charles P.
O'Connell, Cpl. Darren Ritter, Sgt. Bryan K. Robinson, Sgt.
Graham Shaw, |
| Charles
P.
O'Connell: "Sgt Nelson was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal for
his efforts in providing first aid to small child
that had
become
trapped in, I think, a sewage drain. Try as he did
the
child did not
survive." |
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1987
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| Ambassador: T.
Frank Crigler |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander: SSgt Bob Miley
Watchstanders: Oyeoru
Ngbada Aboki,
Sgt.
Mike Chinn, Cpl. Jeff Davis, Cpl. Rob Denning, Bob Hendrick, Cpl. Tracy
Kruse, Sgt. Glenn Nelson, Sgt.
Charles P.
O'Connell, Sgt. Bryan K. Robinson, Sgt. Graham
Shaw, |
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1986
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| Ambassador: Peter
Bridges |
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Oyeoru Ngbada Aboki, Sgt. Edwin D. Fore, Bob Hendrick, |
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1985
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| Ambassador: Peter
Bridges |
Company Commander:
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Edwin D. Fore, Bob
Hendrick,
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1984
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| Ambassador: Robert
Bigger Oakley / Peter
Bridges |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander: Sgt. Donald (Chip) Hlavasak(sp) / SSgt.
Mitchell Arnone
Watchstanders: Cpl.
Raymond T. Brown, Cpl. Perry Dale Smelzer, Cpl. Paul Sogla, Cpl. Edwin
Studt, |
| Ambassador
Bridges - Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Somalia,
1984-86. Still living as of 2003. Books by Peter Bridges: Safirka
: An American Envoy (2000). |
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1983
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| Ambassador: Robert
Bigger Oakley |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander: Sgt. Donald (Chip) Hlavasak(sp)
Watchstanders: Cpl.
Raymond T. Brown, Sgt. Lopez, Cpl. Perry Dale Smelzer, Cpl. Paul Sogla,
Cpl. Edwin Studt, |
| Comment from Raymond T. Brown: A/NCOIC
Sgt Donald “Chip” Hlavasak or
Hlavasac. (He is mostly known by his nickname ‘Chip'. I
spelled
Chip’s last name phonetically, as I do not recall the correct spelling
of his
name.) Chip was acting NCOIC when I arrived in Mogadishu and then
became
the NCOIC / Detachment Commander as instructed by the Regional Marine
Office
(F Company) in Nairobi, Kenya. I was in the office when Sgt
‘Chip'
received the call from Marine Major XO. I do not remember the
Major’s
name. As I recall, the RMO Major had was a former British Royal
Marine
(if my memory is correct).
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Donald
K. Petterson |
Company Commander:
Detachment Commander:
A/: Sgt. Donald
(Chip) Hlavasak(sp)
Watchstanders: Sgt.
Lopez, Cpl. Paul Sogla, |
Ambassador
Oakley, of Louisiana.
Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Zaire,
1979-82; Somalia,
1982; Pakistan,
1988. Still living as of 1991 |
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1981
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| Ambassador: Donald
K. Petterson |
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Robert Elkin, Timothy Mark Terry, |
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1980
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| Ambassador: Donald
K. Petterson |
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John Robert Elkin, Richard (Randy)
R. Hill, Timothy Mark Terry, |
| U.S.
takes over the former Soviet naval and air facility in the Somali port
of Berbera |
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1979
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| Ambassador: Donald
K. Petterson |
Company Commander:
NCOIC:
Watchstanders: Sgt.
Dan Drake, Sgt. Kris E. Hankinson, LCpl. Rodney Kimbrough, Sgt. Tyler
Winter, |
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August 1979, presidential approval 23 September 1979
note: the Transitional National Government formed in August 2000 |
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1978
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| Ambassador:
John
Lewis Loughran / Donald
K. Petterson |
Company Commander:
NCOIC: Sgt. Michael Hatter
(Acting)
A/: Sgt Duane
Richardson
Watchstanders: Sgt.
Dan Drake, Sgt. Kris E. Hankinson, LCpl Rodney Kimbrough, Sgt. Tyler
Winter |
| Ambassador
Petterson - Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Somalia,
1978; Tanzania,
1986; Sudan,
1992. Still living as of 1992 |
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1977
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| Ambassador: John
Lewis Loughran |
Company Commander:
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Watchstanders: Al
Keller, |
| Siad
Barre attacked Ethiopia 1975 , hoping to take advantage of the disarray
in the Ethiopian military (after coup). Ethiopia called for assistance
from the Soviet Union / Cuba (5,000 troops). Invading Somali
army
defeated |
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1976
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1975
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| Ambassador: Roger Kirk
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Lewis Loughran |
Company Commander:
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L. Raleigh, |
| U.S.
policy toward Somalia changed
after military coup in Ethiopia overthrew Emperor Haile
Selassie
in favor pro-Soviet group; DERGUE, under the leadership of
Mengistu Haile Merriam. This gave the Soviets an opening to become
close to the Ethiopians in order to further undermine U.S. influence
and gain control over the Red Sea lanes leading to the Indian Ocean and
Persian Gulf. The Soviet aim was to use their friendship with both
Ethiopia and Somalia to reconcile the two feuding powers as "Marxist
brothers." However, they failed to understand that in the mind of Siad
Barre, the friend of their enemy (Ethiopia) could not be simultaneously
a friend of Somalia. For Siad Barre, Somali irredentism was much more
important than Marxist scientific socialism. |
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| Ambassador: Roger Kirk |
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L. Jackson, Henry L. Raleigh, |
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1972
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Matthew
James Looram
Jr. |
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Cpl. Billak, Thomas
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October:
military coup by Mohammed Siad Barre , "scientific
socialism" adopted as Somali state policy
Somalia becomes Cold War pawn between Washington and Moscow.
The country's strategic location made the U.S.-Soviet competition all
the more intense.
Soviets
developed an air and naval facility in the port city of Berbera on
Somalia's northwest coast, pour
arms into
Somalia in order to menace Ethiopia |
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July
1960 (from a merger of British Somaliland, which became independent
from the UK on 26 June 1960, and Italian Somaliland, which became
independent from the Italian-administered UN trusteeship on 1 July
1960, to form the Somali Republic) Note: The Embassy in Mogadiscio (now
Mogadishu) was established on Jul 1, 1960, with Andrew G. Lynch as
Chargé d'Affaires |
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