New African, April 1st, 2002
Feature, Somalia Leslie Goffe on how Somalis see the new film about their historic clash with American soldiers on 3 October 1993. Most Americans know about Somalia only as that place where American Black Hawk gunship helicopters were shot down and destroyed, and where 18 American soldiers involved in a mission to capture members of Mohammed Farah Aidid's cabinet, were killed, their bodies dragged through the streets of Mogadishu like trophies. This defeat, a dark chapter in American military history that some compare with Vietnam, led to a hasty American retreat from Somalia. Like Vietnam,...
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