Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. – Jim Horning

Author’s Note: This is a revised extract from my book “Surviving the United Nations,” which was peer-reviewed for accuracy. This revision appeared previously in Spec Ops Magazine.

— The year was 2002. The call came late in the evening from the head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the southern port city of Aden. He requested that I grab the first available flight out of Sana’a, the capital city, the next morning. Somali refugees had detained members of his local staff as well as the international non-government humanitarian organization (INGO) implementing partners. The reason for the detainment situation was not immediately clear . The Yemini barracks commander,

See Full Page