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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: THE AGE: CARE LINK TO US IN SOMALIA CONFLICT
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Australasia ; 09-Feb-2000 12:00:00 am ; 108 words
Aid agency CARE Australia directly helped US personnel during the United
Nations-sanctioned military and humanitarian intervention in Somalia.
This occurred on 15 December 1992, two days before a UN force marched into the starving
and besieged town of Baidoa. CARE Australia gave shelter, transport and advice on the best
way for the military force to enter the city safely to four US State Department agents.
The arrival in Baidoa of the combat helicopters, military aircraft and 700 US and French
troops in the UN convoy the next morning was co-ordinated from within the supposedly
neutral walls of the CARE Australia compound. CARE Australia said on 8 February 2000 that
management had no knowledge of the allegations and flatly rejected them.
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