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The disastrous mission also left a number of the peacekeepers traumatized.

Since the disastrous mission to release the American hostages in Iran, coverage of the hostages has evaporated.

He was the Army combat commander in Mogadishu in 1993, when eighteen Americans were slain during the disastrous mission made famous by Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk Down".

But with their Betty Crocker cake mixes, Band-aids and rigid American faith the family are ill-equipped for their disastrous mission into the wilderness.

This week saw yet another embarrassing landmark the anniversary of Mr Bush's disastrous "Mission Accomplished" speech.Conventional wisdom in Washington has an explanation for Mr Bush's lead: there must be something profoundly wrong with Mr Kerry.

It was true in Britain after the 2005 London bombings, when Tony Blair ripped up civil liberties and sent thousands of British troops on a disastrous mission to Afghanistan.

If the fate of United Nations peacekeeping in Congo is inextricably linked to the crisis in Sierra Leone, it is because of the history of disastrous missions in Africa in the past decade, particularly in Somalia and Rwanda.

Alex Blair Underwoodd) is an ace Navy pilot who had a heart attack after a disastrous bombing mission in Iraq.

Lt. Gen. James B. Vaught, the commander of the Carter administration's disastrous April 1980 mission aimed at freeing more than 50 American hostages held in Iran, died Sept. 20 in Conway, S.C.

A habitat restorer and an animal-rights activist square off in Boyle's rollicking novel, which concerns a plan to kill invasive species on the Channel Islands of California and features shipwrecks and a disastrous rescue mission.

On Friday, Mr. Bush had about 20 Republican members of Congress in for a Camp David sleepover plus a screening of "Black Hawk Down," Washington's current must-see movie, on the disastrous 1993 mission in Somalia.