CBS Sunday Night News - 1993-08-08
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[0:03] This is the CBS Sunday Night News.
[0:07] Phil Plant reporting. Good evening.
[0:09] Four US soldiers dead in an ambush of UN
[0:12] peacekeeping forces in Somalia. The UN
[0:14] special envoy on the scene blames
[0:16] warlord General Mohamed Aidid and he
[0:18] talks of retaliation. It's the heaviest
[0:21] US loss of life since American troops
[0:23] arrived last December. Eric Engberg has
[0:26] more.
[0:28] >> Gunfire erupted just outside Mogadishu,
[0:30] pinning down the US troops speeding to
[0:32] the area where four soldiers were killed
[0:35] when a landmine went off underneath
[0:37] their Humvee.
[0:38] UN officials blamed warlord Mohamed
[0:41] Aidid. President Clinton vowed an
[0:43] all-out effort to identify the attackers
[0:45] and punish them.
[0:46] >> Of course, the United States condemns
[0:48] it. Uh there are regrettably people who
[0:50] still have a a vested interest
[0:53] in misery and murder and mayhem.
[0:56] >> The attack brought calls from Capitol
[0:58] Hill for tougher action against the
[1:00] warlords.
[1:01] >> Uh I think uh we need to step up the
[1:04] efforts to find Aidid and to neutralize
[1:07] his forces.
[1:08] >> Three of the four Americans killed by
[1:10] the mine were based at Fort Riley,
[1:12] Kansas where soldiers were asking
[1:15] questions.
[1:15] >> You feel like you're down there with one
[1:17] hand tied behind your back because
[1:18] you're not really allowed to defend
[1:19] yourself most of the time against such
[1:21] things like that.
[1:23] And I hope they do something about this.
[1:25] >> While the president made it clear he
[1:26] supports the UN position in Somalia, the
[1:30] death of the four American troops puts
[1:32] new pressure on him to either extricate
[1:34] himself from that country or to fin