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The president would travel by helicopter. We were not so lucky. On the last day of 1992, we set out to get to Baidoa before the president did. We went in a four-vehicle convoy. There was a Land Rover full of reporters and another full of satellite technicians and a camera crew. Each Land Rover hauled a trailer, one carrying a satellite dish and the other loaded with a generator and fuel. Somali “security” was needed to guard us – one stake bed truck full of them in front and a second truckload behind. If you had more guns than the creeps, the harmless- looking old fellow raised the pole and obsequiously waved you through. If you didn't have more guns, you were robbed and shot. We had more guns. Along the road to Baidoa, a dozen or more impromptu roadblocks had been set up. These were lengths of iron pipe balanced on an oil drum and counterweighted with a chunk of concrete. One harmless-looking old fellow squatted at each roadblock. He was not asking for a toll. You could see what the deal was when you stood on the Land Rover seat and looked out the sunroof at the surrounding thornbush. Armed creeps lurked. If you had more guns than the creeps, the harmless-looking old fellow raised the pole and obsequiously waved you through. If you didn’t have more guns, you were robbed and shot. We had more guns.
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