Outsourcing the Battle Against Somali Islamists
Michael Durant’s helicopter over Mogadishu. Mike Goodale rode on this one.
Humiliated after the “Black Hawk Down” incident in Somalia in 1993, there has been a reluctance by the US to commit troops there. But the country is mostly run by an Islamist group that some see as a threat. So, the problem has been “outsourced” to private companies. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa bureau chief of the New York Times.
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