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The decision that turned a 30-minute raid into an 18-hour nightmare

The Battle of Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, is remembered as one of the deadliest urban battles fought by American forces ...
Newsweek

‘Naked’ Mission

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid died last week after a battle with ...
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What Really Happened During the Black Hawk Down Incident? Inside the Real-Life Combat Mission Gone Wrong Revisited in “Surviving Black Hawk Down”

Gen. Colin Powell driving through Mogadishu on a tour of Somalia. The 2001 war film Black Hawk Downbrought the deadly events of 1993's Battle of Mogadishu to the big screen. The Academy Award-winning ...
Time

Black Hawk Up

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA: U.S. helicopter pilot Michael Durant is carried on a stretcher to the helicopter from the 46th Combat Support hospital 15 October 1993. Durant was freed by supporters of Somali ...
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How AC/DC helped save a POW in Mogadishu

At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (played by actor Ron Eldard) is sitting in a dark room as a prisoner of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, as a ...
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Where Are the Black Hawk Down Survivors Now? All About the U.S. Soldiers' Lives Decades Later — and What Somali Citizens Still Remember from the Deadly Battle

Though Black Hawk Down is a fictionalized account of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, the real American soldiers and Somalis who survived the deadly crash have their own harrowing tales to tell.
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Aidid says Somalia is full of Islamic terrorists

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- If Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid is to be believed, Somalia is crawling with terrorists. But Aidid, a onetime U.S. Marine whose father was America's most wanted Somali ...