The US withdrawal announcement triggered UNOSOM II’s collapse and renewed clan fighting.

Evidence

The writing was now clearly on the wall as far as U.N.O.S.O.M. II was concerned. The announcement of the impending U.S. withdrawal triggered a progressive decline in international support as other national contingents made arrangements to depart while the going was good. In Mogadishu itself, these changes had a destabilizing effect, with clashes between ‘Ali Mahdi’s Abgal and ‘Aideed’s Habar Gidir supporters. Claiming that ‘Aideed intended to seize power when the Americans pulled out, ‘Ali Mahdi was threatening to rearm. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 640

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Egyptian withdrawal threatened to spark clan wars and Abyssinian expansion.; A smaller single force with Somali experience could have outperformed UNOSOM II — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 899

Related

• The Egyptian withdrawal threatened to spark clan wars and Abyssinian expansion. (similarity 0.89)
• A smaller single force with Somali experience could have outperformed UNOSOM II (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• A smaller single force with Somali experience could have outperformed UNOSOM II #responds-to (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 899