The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
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The Disaster of Ahmed's Flight to Hargasa
Ahmed Mi and the other pilot were ordered to bomb Hargasa, but it was known that there were civilians still in the city. Ahmed says this issue with his plane was in fact what he'd already known about before he arrived in Hargasa. But as it wasn't immediately dangerous, he decided not to tell anyone, in case he later needed an excuse not to fly. And so this is what he now used as the reason to abort his mission and avoid having to fire on the city. By this point, Ahmed had already made a decision. His only alternative to bombing the city he realized was to flee, to fly north across the border into Djibouti. He
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