In the final days of his presidency, George H.W. Bush committed the U.S. military to a mission many would later regret, ordering more than 20,000 troops into Somalia to "save thousands of innocents from death."
The United States has ordered all non-essential employees of its mission to Somalia to leave the capital, Mogadishu, because of “specific threat information” against them.
The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed at least 231 people with more than 275 injured, the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation.