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Meanwhile, ostensibly destitute Somali refugees led lucrative secret careers as black-market merchants of relief supplies.
Siyad Barre's military misadventures generated tens of thousands of refugees, destroyed previously self-sufficient nomadic cultures, and got the Somali economy hooked on cheap foreign grain and foreign currency.
But Bowden's excellent reporting--he interviewed scores of U.S. and Somali soldiers--makes for a "vivid, immediate and unsparing narrative that is filled with blood and noise and terror" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read the first chapter courtesy of the New York Times [requires free registration].)
Maren reports the lament of his friend Chris Cassidy, a CARE worker who nearly went mad trying to teach Somali refugees to adopt irrigated cash-crop farming: "How the hell am I going to convince these people to get out there and dig if they get more food than they can eat free from CARE?"
Black Hawk helicopters by members of a Somali militia group and to the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces in early 1994.