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Why were U.S. forces sent to Somalia during the 1993 battle of Mogadishu?

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Bush sent American forces into Somalia on a humanitarian mission to bring food to the victims of a raging civil war and man-made famine. But by the fall of 1993, the mission had expanded to one of restoring a government in Somalia

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Answer:

The U.S. forces were there to protect the democratically elected president.

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