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Philip Hammond
the same edition’s leader column argued that the television spectacle ‘should not obscure the seriousness of the enterprise’. In the Times (9 December), Martin Fletcher and Sam Kiley also made it clear that the media circus did not diminish the value of the operation: ‘“This is just great!” said one unidentified Somali. “What a relief.”’ It is notable that the August 1992 US airlift occasioned only