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fighting in Mogadishu. The U.N. peacekeeping force and
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U.S. troops withdrew from the region on March 3 , 1995, in
the wake of increasing losses.

The U.S. military history is full of such failed rescue opera-
tions, even if they are not always as notorious as these two.
One such incident took place in mid-December, 2014, in
the village of Dafaar in the Yemeni province of Abva. A res-
cue operation by U.S. special forces ended in two
hostages, the 33-year-old American photojournalist Luke

Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie, being shot
to death by militants. A local al-Qaeda commander, vari-
ous militants, a woman and a 10-year-old child also lost
their lives.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed that
this had happened during a hostage rescue operation.
Somers and Korkie had been held hostage in Yemen for
more than a year.

The U.S. had been conducting operations with drones in

Yemen since 2002. Yet many of these operations ended in
failure, with the deaths of many civilians. In 2014, 13 civilians
died and 20 people were injured in an aerial attack on al-
Qaeda targets in the Yemeni town of Rada.

So what should be done now as these countries are unable
to stop the continuing terrorist activities in their lands and
external military interventions are leading to the deaths of
innocent people?

To reiterate, first and foremost, an intellectual struggle must
be waged against terror organisations that use violence in