Somalia - Aidid's Militia Take Former UN Compound

(1 Feb 1995) T/I: 11:11:40

Militiamen loyal to Somali warlord, Mohamed Farah Aidid, occupied
the former U.N. headquarters compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday
(1/2) and embarked on a systematic looting spree after the last of
the U.N. troops withdrew on Tuesday night.

SHOWS:

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA. 1/2

0.00 U.N. tanks pulling out of compound gates
0.06 soldier of roof watches convoy below
0.09 armoured column on the road
0.14 rear view armoured column on road
0.19 tank crosses street
0.23 local people running into compound
0.26 looters coming out of compound building
0.29 militiamen on truck
0.33 man rolling barrel away
0.36 looters carrying furniture
0.39 man runs off with wheelbarrow
0.42 armoured column passing camera position
0.47 soldier in tank cock-pit
0.55 aerial of armoured column

1.03 vision ends

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