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Kismayu port opened, allowing food to hungry Somalis
KISMAYU, Somalia, Dec 21: US and Belgian troops have opened a second major port to move food to Somalia's hungry, pouring ashore without resistance as thousands of Somalis cheered, reports AP.
The US Marines and Belgian paratroopers landed in broad daylight Sunday and quickly took control of the port and airport in Kismayu. about 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
Clan fighting and looting had kept the port closed for months, strangling the flow of aid to a trickle brought In by plane and truck from neighbouring Kenya.
Everything went well; not a shot was fired," said Col Fred l*eck, a Marine spokesman in Mogadishu.
A Marine patrol In
Mogadishu, meanwhile, exchanged fire with Somali gunmen, hitting one, a US spokesman said. No American casualties were reported.
Peck said the Somali gunman was shot while aiming a .50-calibrc machine gun at them from the back of a war wagon whose driver was racing aviniy from the Marines outside the parliament building. The site Is near the line that divides the city between rival factions.
In the inland town of Baidoa, the first truck convoy of food in more than a month arrived with Marines riding shotgun.
With Cobra helicopter gunships whirling over Kismayu and FA- 18 Hornet fighter-bombers and A-6 Intruder attack planes streaking above, the first 180 Marines splashed
onto the beach in amphibious vehicles at 6:30 am (0330 GMT).
They were followed by 90 paratroopers of Belgium's 1st Airborne Battalion tn US Navy hovercraft, and transport helicopters that dropped some of the soldiers on the port's broad, concrete dock.
As the Belgians secured the port, the Marines moved into the city in their armoured vehicles and raced for the airport, about 6 kilometres (4 miles) to the south.
Somalis on the streets and on rooftops cheered and waved as the Marines sped by. Forewarned of the landing, many residents had painted signs saying "Welcome American Soldiers."
Two hours and twenty minutes after the landing the airport was declared secure. A
US government plane touched down less than an hour later, followed by two relief flights of the International Red Cross.
Similar conditions and entreaties from aid workers led American military commanders to send a combined force of Marines and French Foreign Legionnaires to Baidoa on Wednesday. Armed Somalis fled before the troops arrived.
Clan gunmep and bandit gangs also disappeared from the streets of Mogadishu after the Marines arrived December 9. But armed men have been filtering back Into the city.
Peck said 20 trucks of the UN World Food Programme were escorted to Baidoa by a reinforced rifle platoon of about 60 Marines. The convoy carried 300 metric tons of wheal, enough to provide meals for 750,000 people for
one day.
A UN source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said military briefers told aid officials Sunday that the towns of Hoddur and Gailalasst would be the next goals.
The source said the military leaders promised to have those towns secured within four or five days.
Reuter adds: Even after most US troops leave Somalia, a Marine force stationed off the African coast could remain behind to help maintain stability, Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said on Sunday.
"I think we need to be very careful about how long we commit forces in Somalia." Eagleburger said on NBC's Meet the Press programmes. “I think ft also clear, however, that we need to have some-
thing available from the US that can go in and deal with problems after we've pulled most of our troops out"
Eaglcburger said a Marine amphibious readiness group, including an aircraft carrier and some amphibious craft, could stay off the Somali coast for a while after most US troops leave and peacekeepers enter Somalia.
This offshore force would assure the peacekeepers that we arc there to help still, and to remind those with the guns that they arc not necessarily free simply because most of our troops have gone,' ^DefenTe Secretary Dick Cheney said he still expects the bulk of US forces to begin leaving Somalia by the end of J-a-ry