''The story goes that a wounded Somali staggered into the British held town of Hargeisa from a battle nearby. He had a bullet wound in his leg and a spear stuck in his stomach. The doctors examined him and pronounced they would operate on his leg first because it was going gangrenous. 'NO, no,' said the man, 'fix my stomach first. It hurts when I laugh.'
That spirit lives on in Somalia. One abiding, horrifying, but typical image stays in mind: a Young Somali dressed in T-Shirt, flip flops and macawiis, the traditional skirt-like wrap, running at an American armored Humvee firing an AK47 from the hip. Bravery=10 points. Stupidity, also ten points. He was cut to shreds.''
[Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, pages 89-91]
That spirit lives on in Somalia. One abiding, horrifying, but typical image stays in mind: a Young Somali dressed in T-Shirt, flip flops and macawiis, the traditional skirt-like wrap, running at an American armored Humvee firing an AK47 from the hip. Bravery=10 points. Stupidity, also ten points. He was cut to shreds.''
[Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, pages 89-91]
