Prelude to Black Hawk Down: Raw Footage Documentary on Battle of Mogadishu (1993)

On 3 October 1993, US special forces became embroiled in a disastrous battle in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Three UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were brought down in the city using rocket propelled grenades. The US launched a huge rescue mission for the survivors, but encountered heavy resistence. Known as the Battle of Mogadishu, the conflict was dramatised in Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film, Black Hawk Down.
Using newly-restored footage filmed by ITN’s camera crew stationed in Somalia at the time, ITN Archive presents a special documentary chronicling the events leading up to the battle. Drawing on dramatic footage and key witness interviews recorded between 1992 and 1993, this film tells the story of how the United Nations’ humanitarian mission in Somalia became overtaken by a controversial military campaign, and how popular support for the UN in the country became steadily replaced by widespread hostility towards the US-led military presence.
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[@aaaafx_]

Incredible rare footage. Thank you so much for putting it up. Let's not forget this.

[@las9367]

Trump probaply would say SHTHLE cantry

[@cosplayshop]

Fun fact, Mohamed Farrah Aidid's son Hussein Aidid was a US Marine between 1988 to 1995 and actually was deployed to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope as an interpreter. The guy you saw on 16:59 interpreting the colonel is Mohamed Farrah Aidid's son....

[@PatReid1775]

That is a fucking crazy ass Fun Fact!

[@Pantone268Plus]

Wild that after looking him up, he returned to Somalia after his service to succeed his father

[@cosplayshop]

@@Pantone268Plus Yeah, he actually took over his father position after he returned to Somalia. Kind of want to know what was he thinking when that battle happened? He was never interviewed (as far as I know) on his time in Somalia.

[@buurmedia]

That is NOT him...just google him and compare faces. Doesn't sound like him either. The only similarity I can possibly seen is skin tone?

[@cosplayshop]

@buurarchives that's him, it's well documented he is the ONLY marine translating for the colonel for the Marine

[@jimmyhope4521]

Man, I was there, I can’t believe it’s fixing to be 30 years, time flies

[@BobMuffin-dt8jp]

Random question , what are your general thoughts on Somalia’s current sate , having been deployed there ??

[@dalisobanda5575]

@BobMuffin-dt8jp *State

[@Saturnia2014]

​@@BobMuffin-dt8jpGood question

[@garywillford]

Me too, brother. Sword Base from May to Sep 93.

[@Ulyssestnt]

I was deployed to ISAF in 07 and 09 , I still feel positively ancient now..lol

[@scottcampbell7249]

Parts of the video are 10th Mountain Division US Army soldiers not US Marines!

[@johngillespie3409]

My friend was in C co 1/87 10th Mountain, they went to the first wreck Courage 53 a week before BHD. They didn't get any medals while rangers they rescued got their medals upgraded. Forgotten Bastards of BHD 🇺🇲

[@scottcampbell7249]

@@johngillespie3409 They're not forgotten, My brother was in the 75th and talks about the role the 10th played in BHD and believe me there is much respect for the !0th and what they did over there from the guys it matters to.

[@johngillespie3409]

@@scottcampbell7249 tell your brother thank you. Jeff Struecker brought a painting as a thank you and is always mentioning their help. SF Medic Ricord built a memorial Harley and had the task force sign it, starting with my friend's platoon. Army Times has a few new articles from Nov about the both instances and they are crazy the amount of fighting they did. Taking out the roadblocks to get to them. The motorcycle is at the 10th Mountain museum so they have to remember 🤣 I was in 7th ID lightfighter and it was shut down and I didn't go anywhere. I got an honorable, my friend got an OTH and gets no benefits while I do. Crazy thanks 🇺🇲 Lightfighter

[@tonyfree2691]

Irrelevant, it's Americans destroying and dividing. Always.

[@patrickdevine1085]

Sappers Forward

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

UN: stands for Useless Notion

[@99ron30]

They weren't as useless as the US soldiers in this incident though.

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

@@99ron30 yes TF they were. It was UN soldiers that started the armed conflict. Until then the militia was peaceful and cooperative with US forces. Did you not watch the video?

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

@@99ron30 if you're going to be dumb, at least do it in private

[@OmmerSyssel]

​@@ryanoglesbee1075what do you mean UN started the conflict, when they told Pakistani UN troops were ambushed by doing their duty? At least 20 were killed by Somali combatants, apparently connected to Aidi... Any relevant clarification appreciated

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

@@OmmerSyssel by intelligence failure, by failing to address rumors that UNOSOM planned to take control over Radio Mogadishu, and reassure the populace that it wasn't a goal of UNOSOM to do so. And when they did show up to inspect a weapons cache, they failed to address the intentions of what they were doing there at the time. This led to confusion among the locals (locals who were not necessarily connected to Aidid but possibly at least partially so), who thought the foreigners were there to take control of the radio broadcasts, which were the predominant medium of Somalia. And when the violence did break out, the UN body involved was tactically inept, and suffered massive casualties. And while there were Americans and even Italians present, the failure to have unit cohesion amongst such a diverse contingent, and the difficulty to communicate with each other on the battlefield could possibly have been the catalyst that caused such tactical ineptitude.

[@putraperak5369]

Amerika Should have revealed who saved the American army!! Have to realize who saved the American special forces,Peacekeeper Malaysia, the Malaysian army that saved America At that time there were Malaysian and Pakistani peacekeepers, Pakistan only had tanks to cover the convoy,Peacekeeper Malaysia only boarded a condo, and a Malaysian soldier died due to rpg If it wasn't for the Malaysian army, the American soldiers would all die because they couldn't get out, because they were surrounded by Aidid's followers 😢

[@patrickdevine1085]

Bullshit

[@Rupert.Mellstroy462]

Bullshit

[@AITCHESSPEE]

19:00 shoutout the Aussies chilling in the background I see you 🐨🦘🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@noelcollins2355]

24:50 turks doing turk things... little hypocrites.

[@jamesegan2840]

Served under many commanders. Steele was the most bad ass, idgaf, no holds , from the front commander i ever had the pleasure to serve with. Rakkasan!!

[@isaacdepaula2103]

Wow this is rare, hope YT doesn't take it down. Good job man

[@Heegooat]

Download it. There are so many videos that were taken down especially pre 2010

[@iaiband]

They don’t want you to know the truth. Somalia was an embarrassment to us foreign policy, and was directly responsible for The UN doing nothing to stop the genocide in rawanda and pretty much every crisis and situation involving war crimes for the rest of history

[@planetcaravan2925]

​@@Heegooat how?

[@CornPopWazABadDude]

​@@planetcaravan2925ever heard of Google?

[@esr243]

Thanks you for posting this. I was conducting humanitarian action in Somalia at the time. This is valuable historic footage

[@planetcaravan2925]

Me too

[@grizzlycountry1030]

Taking away a village's guns didn't make it safer. It made them victims.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Pretty much sums up what happens in New York, Chicago, LA

[@ThePhillkillv2]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Completely, completely incomparable circumstances.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

@@ThePhillkillv2 very comparable, you take away people’s ability to defend themselves and they become victims

[@HPCAT88]

​@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606no point talking reason with gun grabbers

[@iaiband]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606at least the Somalis have rights. Just look at that marine whose going to spend the rest of his life at rikers for saving a woman on the subway

[@iaiband]

That menu music from that novalogic game started playing in my head

[@planetcaravan2925]

That Delta Force

[@jimmyhope4521]

I remember patrolling the streets “ disarming “ the skinnies. I didn’t have any shades or anything on to cover my eyes. The skinnies were freak’n out about my Blue Eyes. I actually had to leave the patrol for awhile so things would calm down !!

[@1vigorousdragon]

12:40 if you treat the elders like cattle they will all act like cattle. Imagine if you were a warlord, important to you area and were packed like sardines? What would you be thinking ?

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

Don't be a warlord then.....?

[@longshot197036]

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 If you treat your mob boss like cattle....

[@KGSpradleyAuthor]

They had no vehicles dude. A 5 ton truck was a limousine to those guys. I guess you’ve never been to a third world nation, huh?

[@sfd672]

That was the most Neocon thing you could ever do lol Packing esteemed elders like that was disgusting and highlighted the US's contempt for Somalis/Africans.

[@thefabulousplatypus8956]

what a mess that was. Good to see the raw footage, record of what happened, just scenes and not analysts talking about some agenda.

[@rafaelmadrigal1534]

The United Nations force has a dirty habit of assisting terrorists against the USA. Figure that one out.

[@randomoldguy3967]

The US has a habit of doing business with terrorists. I’m looking at you Saudi Arabia.

[@your7404]

YeS, the un do assist the real world terrorists USA

[@patrickdevine1085]

The 10th Mountain Division QRF were the only US troops in Somalia from April 93 when UNISOM II took over. On June 5 it was troops from TF 1-32 INF 10th MTN Division that rescued and helped recover the Pakistani troops that were ambushed. Many of the dead Pakistani troops were killed by Italian gunships that were told not to engage targets. The Marines were not in country at the time, I know this because I was there as a Sapper in TF 1-32INF. It was troops from this unit that also conducted every subsequent combat mission from June 6th until TF 2-14 arrived in country to relieve us in August. The helicopter dropping leaflets in this video is actually an Italian helicopter not an US helicopter. The weapons storage facility that was blown was blown by my Sapper Squad and not Marines. The troops shown on the road providing security are members of the Scout Platoon of TF 1-32INF. The ITN reporter that put this tripe together got everything incorrect for start to finish.

[@KaskKreem]

They need to release all these videos of the past Wars for us to see, its waaayyyyyy better than the Movies! 💯

[@brianazmy3156]

"Take those sunglasses off your head soldier. If Delta wants to wear Oakleys, that's their business. I don't want to see them on you again. Hooaa?" Capt. Steele ~ One of the few rare movies that are equally as good as the book. RLTW

[@discipleaj]

Steele's character was *based.* _"I didn't see you in church on Sunday, soldier. You got something better to do?"_

[@diddlethepoodle4812]

"This is your safety, well this is my boot son and it will fit up your ass with the proper amount of force!" - sgt. Dominick Pilla RIP

[@jdlambo6926]

Hey that first guy was josh hartnik he was in the movie too!

[@owlgothic248]

Thank you for uploading. Moment has passed but the memories remain

[@stevemills1352]

Believe who you want, today's journalists don't have the freedom they did then

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

More like they don't have intelligence today

[@sfd672]

@@AwesomeAngryBiker You are fake news.

[@RumpelFourSkin]

Its like letting the primates run the banana stand

[@zeincexxx1285]

Animals.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Lower than that

[@ce641]

he really used a turn signal

[@sforza209]

lol I was thinking the exact same thing. Dudes following road laws when there isn’t even a road.

[@planetcaravan2925]

Not a BMW then

[@thedude828-ed2nn]

Fun fact adids son was a US marine. And during Muhammad farah adids interview you can literally hear choppers flying over while hes the most wanted man in somalia😂😂

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Muslims are very peaceful

[@richdillon1221]

WOW AMAZING FOOTAGE

[@deejay2294]

30:53 a man praying for war is doomed to be prey of that same war

[@Blindsyde5762]

Bro I just came here to write this exact comment, with the same timestamp.

[@putraperak5369]

But the name of Malaysia echoed in all the Somali radios at that time Malaysia tiger they called the Malaysian peacekeeper who was serving in Somalia at that time, until the leader of the Somali rebels Said to Somali radio Malaysia tiger because the Malaysian peacekeeper managed to save the American soldiers who are not under the UN flag America came under their own flag their mission was to capture Muhamad Aidid but failed,

[@pickititllneverheal9016]

Took their weapons, to make them "safer". That works every time. 😂😂😂

[@PLegalrep]

So we finally hear the other side's version of events. So the Somali's were okay with the aide, but were afraid of the armed presence of the UN, which they didn't ask for. Then when the Pakistanis tried to take away their voice by raiding, oops, I mean "inspecting" the radio station (Radio Mogadishu), the people stood their ground and resisted. They were then killed by the Pakistani soldiers, so the crowd re-grouped, and took out the Pakistanis. Then the UN attempted a coup on Aziz (who was a legitimate leader, not a "warlord" and the UN killed a bunch more people in the process. The people supported him and fought back and won. Bottom line, don't try to overthrow a country with force. It was probably the CIA and UN who created the civil war in the first place to replace their leadership and go in to get the oil. We all saw the Amoco hat on the "aide worker" at 26:25. Obviously an oil company employee LOL. Look at 24:49 and listen to the guys watching the man create fake news and propaganda. Eventually, even the most remote people realize they are being manipulated.

[@KaoticReach1999]

They didn't have elections until 2012...he was a warlord

[@siciidali499]

Aidid interview is the most measured and level headed of any politician.

[@USNVA11]

He was certainly weighing every word he spoke.

[@oasis5683]

A warlord trying to represent on behalf of all Somalis is a sad history when he contributed to the destruction and caused suffering of the people. Somalis went from warlord to extremism.

[@casioak1683]

Level headed for the camera; on the field he was really a ruthless dictator causing destruction in Somalia. Thankfully now he is gone and Somalia returns to normal life, the armed forces of Somalia is also back & now being trained by Turkiye.

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

Posing for the camera yes the man looks well spoken but behind the scene, he was one of the reason why Somalia was chaotic & needed UN intervention.

[@Rimasta1]

Anyone with half a brain can do well on an interview.

[@toyhunterslasvegas]

Around 24:35 mark "were you able to get the food to these people before the military came in?" Response.. "...no.."

[@mychannel3774]

Were they able to continue food delivery once the priority changed to kill or capture Aideed? ALSO NO. 🤷‍♂️

[@RumpelFourSkin]

Allah brings peace wherever he is😂

[@pedjatrninic]

No josh hartnett?Im not watching this,too real for me 😁

[@brandonGCHACHU]

After Somalia and how the US tucked their tail and ran instead of defending the servicemen who lost their lives there made me NEVER want to sign up for duty. I was disgusted by the outcry to pull out the troops rather than go finish what was started. Those boys all died in vain.... for nothing!! Just like Vietnam and Afghanistan only this wouldve been a war we couldve won with relative ease

[@howiedoodat8]

The last war that was worth fighting for was ww2. Vietnam up until 2001 was a waste. The 9/11 attacks are tricky and as time goes on, the evidence is starting to look like some very wealthy elites wanted to invade afghanistan and iraq for monetary gain. Not for freedom, we were fed all these years.

[@RubbishGimpy]

That's what war is. Soldiers being lied to about their purpose and dying for nothing. I still amazed military me still fall for it.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

All war is waste.

[@ottomueller4425]

Should have never been there to begin with.

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

The problem is the west has a savior complex where they believe they can help people and fix nations when more often than not they're beyond help and that we should just let them live how they want to live and DO NOT bring them into your own countries in any large numbers.

[@mychannel3774]

Scope creep and hubris are like nitro and glycerine as the US found out and _keeps_ having to find out. On paper, the Somali factions should’ve been a walkover, but like other “sports,” the game’s not played on paper… 🤷‍♂️

[@Bethany217accountability]

Ive met so many people who claim to have been involved. If all true it would seem a freaking battalion was sent

[@cw6656]

Never under estimate the US's ability to fzck things up.

[@garywillford]

I believe you meant UN. That was entirely a UN op. The military part of it was US led during Restore Hope (and that mission was a success). Continue Hope was under the command of a Turkish General, Bier (sp?) as I recall. That’s when BHD happened.

[@khalifazarulizwan5196]

@@garywillford what are you talking about? It was US OP, not UN OP. UN had to go in to rescue the surrounded US.

[@garywillford]

@@khalifazarulizwan5196 That MISSION was, but Task Force Ranger was there as part of Operation Continue Hope which was a UN Op led by General Bier, a Turkish general. And the UN forces HELPED extract US forces. 10th Mountain Division went in there as well. Of course, it wouldn’t have been necessary had Clinton not denied the armor and Specter gunship requests, but that’s a different thing.

[@jeffblacky]

I was watching it happen I later rejoined my guard unit in possibly deploying We didn’t until months after 911

[@michaelbirchall2247]

Everyone of the guys looks like the main pirate from Captain Phillips.

[@BorisYeltzin]

That’s because they are all related

[@Kabouter911]

This has a distinct South African border war feel to it

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

They never seem to be able to manage a country on their own

[@sfd672]

Allow me to educate you. It's pretty hard to manage a country when you have neighbours who have historically meddled in your affairs continuing to do so. Now you even have Turkey/UAE/Egypt staking its claim. Just like in 1992 the world will never let Somalis solve their own problems.

[@ThMindFdr]

You can say the same about Murika, they cant win anything alone either, always get their asses handed to them till someone helps them..

[@watyimchen8840]

Can you see the difference between the real Adid and the Hollywood and US defence collaborated Back Hawk Down Adid.

[@BILLYRFCNO1]

can you see the difference from Hamas and Hezbollah when they talk to reporters and when they cut others heads of and rape children bet not

[@bulle9090]

stay home boys

[@maxryden5322]

Great footage; I don't think I have ever seen any of this.

[@RogueCylon]

It’s British news footage.

[@erikeggenbakstad]

92/ 93, so long ago now. I don't remember all the names of the checkpoints, but we had Pacman, and maybe Mario? Or was Mario the road, can't remember it all now.

[@patrickdevine1085]

Tetris

[@rexmasters1541]

I was there are it was hell. All we did was take weapons away from the Skinnies. They were afraid of the Marines and they did not care about the Rangers at all.

[@Internut1985]

😂😂😂😂 cool joke as if Somalis cared about marines or rangers .

[@pirateblackhawkdown9047]

​@Internut1985 They think this is Hollywood 😂 when reality hits them like in Afghanistan,Vietnam they start running like the cowards they are only fighting from the air is their way.

[@deejay2294]

Adid looks like a burnt Mr. Burns from the Simpsons

[@goodnightcharly5135]

They’re trying to stop the radio

[@marc2638]

One of my Drill Sargeants was here, he was with the 10th mountain. He said that situation happens because certain people in power wanted it to happen,,,, I believe it because what that aid worker just said reinforces what my Drill sergeant said back then, I went to basic in July of 98 so at that point in. Time it was what 5-6 years ago??

[@momopirou3107]

22:30 how Ironic, the helicopter bringing food flies over their field and destroys some of the crops. not to the amount of what is brought ofc, but still ironic.

[@FSboy70]

Yep, there's always something to complain about.

[@mat.se57]

Thanks that there is, what else is there to talk about

[@momopirou3107]

who's complaining?

[@BlacktulipSF]

never ever send UN 'forces' to such areas.

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

What do you mean? They've been everywhere

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

Disregard...read your comment incorrectly

[@Radbiker33357]

9:05 was a little creepy and weird to watch after knowing everything that unfolded after this. This guy knew what he was talking about.

[@HeavyMetalHeathen]

Then the U.S Army comes along and FUCKS IT ALL UP! Lol

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Mission Accomplish !

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

From this event they learned it hard way not to underestimate any mission, ever. Better safe than sorry.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

UN fucked it

[@HeavyMetalHeathen]

@@Cyan_Nightingale YES! Lessons learned, all the way at the top / Delta Level!! I cant believe more Soldiers didnt get K.I..A. If it wasn't for UH-1 Littlebirds and their Gau Miniguns...they'd all of been overrun!

[@guava8158]

"we took the weapons to make it a safer place" ... yeah USA... thats how you handle it at home LOL

[@gekolizzard]

The South African knows..from experience in his own country. He knows.

[@99ron30]

What does he know?. That sometimes black skinned people fight back, despite your overwhelming weapons superiority?. Not just that, SA/Rhodesia made massive use of chemical and biological agents on livestock and clothing. Then you have Project Coast, and including Aids if you watch the documentary movie Cold Case Hammarskjöld. The ANC and Mugabe's lot, suck too ofcourse though.

[@mistereearly1141]

Remind me again why legal right we had to send sons and daughters of America to die in Somalia ?

[@mikkodoria4778]

So they dont go to chicago or detroit, now its too late

[@mistereearly1141]

@@mikkodoria4778 hahahaha yup, that plan imploded spectacularly. Gaddafi is laughing in his grave at us all. He tried to warn us about our “elite”

[@explorecriminalminds]

Americans aren't war mongers, the politicians and Defense Contractors love to invade 3rd world countries on false pretentious. The Citizens are lied to and by design there only doing what they think is right.

[@SnakePliskin762]

The UN backed this one which is more than can be said for Iraq.

[@casioak1683]

LOL. I'm not an American or westerners. But Somalia was UN's priority problem, especially after the Rwanda civil war & genocide which shocked the world. Are you saying that no country should not stop violences in Somalia? Today Somali piracy is still a problem but back then in the 1990s it was uncontrollable!

[@FantsyPants]

FAFO and have never been back since lol

[@salviloc21]

SH#@@$ COUNTRY WHY EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO HELP THEM ?

[@Ulyssestnt]

28:30 this is actual psyops for you:dropping leaflets etc. Not controlling your mind covertly.

[@thomasvarley380]

A whole lot of teeth and foreheads .

[@bobrowley4346]

😆

[@neilarmsweak9084]

First person to ever use a blinker in Somalia

[@blosseraustin]

I swear thats Jim Lahey @1:40

[@BoneyRasputin]

It's the liquor randy.. makes ya see things..

[@rafaelmadrigal1999]

I did not get my KFC coupon from the helicopter drop.

[@pmc6925]

Normally I don't leave comments in any of this stuff. One my former team members sent me this video because he wanted to pay special attention to a particular piece of it which I'll keep between him and I. But we were right in the middle of all that crazy sh*t. I lost 4 very good friends during that cluster fk! They were not only great human beings but were outstanding soldiers. We lost a lot of good guys during all that, don't get me wrong,. But 4 of them were real heroes during it all .Two of which gave their lives protecting one of the downed aircrew. Fought to the very fkn end! Rest in peace all my brothers who fell during Operation Gothic Fkd-up Serpent! All were outstanding soldiers and true heroes. God bless them all and God bless America.🇺🇲

[@mychannel3774]

FFS, it’s not about _you!_ 🤬 It was about ensuring the locals had equitable access to food aid, not some crusading “police” action to make your bent politicians look tough back in murKKKa. Don’t you get it?! Being used as pawns in someone _else’s_ country/games cost your colleagues everything. I won’t mention the loss and destruction to the locals you were ostensibly there to “protect.” _They_ clearly don’t rate a mention - _right_ “Rambo?” It’s all about you, and _only_ you _(as usual)…_ 😐

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

@@mychannel3774 *It was about ensuring the locals had equitable access to food aid, not some crusading “police” action to make your bent politicians look tough back in murKKKa.* As we all expected it was a wasted effort to try and even when you do your best to help these people they're rarely if ever grateful and they certainly don't bother coming together to even try and help themselves. You're right the world should stop meddling in African affairs and allow themselves to figure it out on their own. Just don't come begging for help everytime you screw yourselves up and don't know how to fix things.

[@mychannel3774]

@@UzumakiNaruto_ Knowing is one thing, having the opportunity to, is something else. Unfortunately, everything seems to be contingent on how much profit US then western corporations stand to gain - sovereignty/“democracy” be damned. Why are there so many lobbyists in the Washington beltway, what do you think they do to your so-called “representatives?” Why are they allowed to draft your legislation, budgets, speeches and foreign policies? Why don’t politicians leave with modest assets commensurate to their salaries? In the past, impoverished, naïve, nominally “independent” Africa may have begged. The US and its vassal just invade and _take._ Like the difference between a hopeful date and a prolific, sadistic rapist - on anabolic steroids. Look at Syria. I don’t recall _anyone_ asking for regime change outside of Langley, Virginia, the beltway, or your oil company boardrooms. Yet America is stealing thousands of barrels of Syrian oil, *to this very day!* No one in their right mind would invite a psychotic rapist for dinner, I think we can all be grateful Africa has shown enough comparative civility to ask - for now. Pretty soon, America will have to learn to enjoy not only Africa’s marginalisation, but Africa’s poverty, just like France - western -interference- - _“services”_ are not required. Thanks to your _fantastically_ corrupt regime, Africa’s begging days may be over, muriKKKa’s may have just began _especially_ as the dollar is being dumped - en masse. _And all they needed to do, was make nice with the world, instead of attempting to bully, dictate and subjugate it._ Oh well, 87% beats 13% eventually, it’s the law of nature not man…

[@MrBigdaddy2ya]

Ending footage shows UN soldier with one hand waving and one hand on the gun. That sums up politics...

[@scott4766]

When he's talking to the guy in the car at the beginning he is now an actor in Hollywood movies fun factoid.

[@snakerstran9101]

Some pretty softball media questions for this guy considering that the UN showed up to distribute food and aid (paid for by non-Somali's of course) and transitioned into essentially attack victims of the "Somali people". The media should have pushed for some answers about that.

[@azino2715]

Non somalis ade there country that way to then come in and help it's called divide conquer so get the facts and most ppl in western countries who uplift the wealth are foreigners so please 🙏🏾 for your people with no culture or real land of there own.

[@atatterson6992]

Too bad they missed Omar and her brother...

[@dariot707]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@cbroz7492]

...yeah, man!!!

[@pickititllneverheal9016]

No doubt.

[@DonnellOkafor-r2d]

💯

[@planetcaravan2925]

Why

[@discipleaj]

31:30 bro was not happy staying there. He definitely did not want to be so exposed for that length of time. 🙏🏻

[@Ulyssestnt]

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age:P

[@daviddunkelheit9952]

@@Ulyssestnttalking about “the pig” M-60E Machinegun. I used to carry the pig. It was like half of the Platoon’s firepower. You become a major asset in the field and others carry your ammo, barrels, food, pogey bait. I loved being a MG gunner.

[@CHECOTJKORRIDOZ]

*TODO LO QUE TOCA USA LO HACE PEDAZOS*

[@bishopsmoke]

Oct0ber 2nd in the year 2o23

[@noway57]

I just love how we protect others' borders and people but our own. 17 million and counting, what could go wrong??

[@xm47ecr36]

Somalia won but they are still poor and hungry 😂😂😂😂

[@AbdisalamHussein-zl4xr]

But we are not slave,s america like other countries 💀😊

[@peterkeyes1814]

Shakes fist at circling Blackhawk. Checks camera is still rolling, shakes fists again. Earlier showing set up shots by the media with locals. Thank you for reminding me why I don't care.

[@hardyje1915]

this doesn't look like early 90s video quality, more like early/mid 2000s am i wrong?

[@afistfullofmustard3006]

its ITV News so even though it was 90s it was actually a good TV grade camera and this footage would have been archived and stored correctly.

[@footie7392]

totally

[@melted8368]

yes you are wrong

[@Doc_Hawk]

this was filmed with studio quality equipment, that's why.

[@steventhehistorian]

Some of those elders during the Colonel's meeting didn't look real thrilled...

[@theblakex]

You know some of them were a part of October 3rd

[@MrJanbrouwer1]

Best wel zielig, hebben ze geen wapens om zich te verdedigen... Help die mensen...TAMMO THE NEED AMMO...

[@oliverwalker5954]

Why bother.

[@ToddandAmandaWilliams-bm8mi]

Same thing happened in Afghanistan under estimated the opposite side I tell my kids all 12 of them do not ever and I don't say this lightly do not ever underestimate when in a life or death situation you fight with all you have and do not stop until the threat is no more I pray to god it never comes to that but the way the world is today again I will never underestimate

[@tex-do1wm]

The Army got caught being lazy.

[@garywillford]

That is absolutely ridiculous. The “Army” requested armor and continued air support. Les Aspen, then SecDef, DENIED both requests. They sent no armor and actually took the AC-130s off station that had been there before October 3rd. If anyone screwed it up it was the Clinton administration.

[@Atitlan1222]

30:54 some US soldier wrote on the Humvee "Pray for War"

[@Ulyssestnt]

I dont think you appriciate how mindnumbingly boring these deployments can be.

[@Atitlan1222]

@@Ulyssestnt You're right. I don't. Never been to a war and don't want to. Just wonder why someone would pray for war.

[@Ulyssestnt]

@@Atitlan1222 call it gallows humour:)

[@Atitlan1222]

@@Ulyssestnt got it.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Pretty sure that’s an old quote taken out of context 99% of the time

[@ozarkrefugee]

I wish our gov't would quit getting us involved in other countries bullshit.

[@decimated550]

Well there are weapons defense companies that get paid by our tax dollars and they are more influential than us taxpayers We are nothing but an ATM machine for the government and their friends

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

This was a humanitarian mission. I agree we need to stop being the world police but this wasn’t meant to escalate into a conflict.

[@mh53j]

People said the same ignorant things in the late 1930s/early '40s when that Hitler fellow was running wild annexing and invading countries in Europe: "It's not an American problem, that's a European problem. We shouldn't send American boys to die in European Wars." You history and political science experts want to tell me how that turned out again? You people think we can just sit back and watch countries, including our allies that we have strong economic and cultural ties with, be endangered or even overrun by either hostile nations or terrorist factions? Are we supposed to sit back and say "boy, it sure sucks they were overrun by that neighboring tyrannical dictator, but it's not our problem. Too bad about all those people being executed, murdered and starved to death. Starbucks, anyone?" You people really think we can isolate ourselves behind two oceans while the world rips itself apart? Didn't work 80 years ago, sure as hell won't work now. Domestic and international issues can be handled at the same time, but not by the career do- nothing politicians in both political parties currently infesting Washington now--and especially not with that mumbling, self-soiling, imbecile of a president we have sitting in the white house.

[@natwolf687]

A humanitarian mission is basic human decency. How selfish can you be?

[@mychannel3774]

It started out as humanitarian, but soon turned into a typical “overcompensating” western dick measuring contest for “the folks back home.” Careerism, cynicism and opportunism will combine to _end_ America if people don’t restore the balance of power. They were only supposed to distribute food, _not_ pick sides…

[@Phantomworks84]

Agusta-Bell AB-205 Esercito Italiano (Italian Army) drop leaflets. E.I. on tail number,no US.

[@sforza209]

I bet Somalia is the exact same way today.

[@HPCAT88]

Yeah the US has a bad track record when it comes to "stabilizing" countries. They excell at destabilizing them however.

[@JosephSeibert-d8e]

Maybe it's just the people,the Somali majority areas in America aren't exactly known as crime free safe zones. Sure there are fine one but overall they just seem to want to live law abiding productive lives. Minnesota has more people leave America to join foreign terror groups than any other state.

[@JosephSeibert-d8e]

Maybe it's just the people,the Somali majority areas in America aren't exactly known as crime free safe zones. Sure there are fine one but overall they just seem to want to live law abiding productive lives. Minnesota has more people leave America to join foreign terror groups than any other state.

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

@@HPCAT88 Can't stabilize nations who have a population that's not very peaceful, civilized and are always prone to violence and leaders who are incompetent, corrupt and are completely incapable of having what it takes to run a country properly. If many of these failed nations had even a mostly peaceful population that was willing to work hard and leaders that had some humility and were willing to learn from people that were smarter than them that would be a solid foundation to build upon, but far too many countries have neither and then end up becoming crapholes that can't really ever be saved outside of a miracle happening.

[@tomcarl8021]

​@@HPCAT88The whole world would be third world if it weren't for America.

[@comontoshi]

Mohammed Aidid had the right idea but the people with the guns believed that old adage “might makes right . . .” and so we have Somali pirates taking ships and hostages . . . 😎

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan8202]

Waste of time, money, and, most importantly, American lives.

[@bryanfrombuffalo7685]

U.n. one worldgovt in the bible

[@deez.knurtz925]

This seemed like a setup from the start having the meeting with the Village Elders Somebody Told

[@carwir5258]

Waaw the aidid strong man from a strong family HGidir

[@youtubeisasshoe8153]

Man this is Chicago not Somalia ! Y'all stop posting misinformation

[@keric-d7h]

28:31

[@LarrySanders-01100]

What a waste of time effort resources lives and American Tax dollars

[@MrZombiekiller23]

30 years later...were still bogged down in colonial wars all over the world...at an even less competency level than then as well💀

[@dariot707]

Imagine this country has made 0 economical progress since the battle of Mogadishu. Yikes 😳 You see not all countries are equal. The more you know.

[@fuoco1365]

Some countries simply need to be left alone and forgotten about until they actually want to change and join the modern world. There will be a day if we as a planet survivor long enough where I'm sure Somalia may one day progress but it will likely never manage to catch up to the modern nations of the world

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

The US and Ethiopia destroyed the only stable government in 2006 on the grounds that it was Islamist only for their intervention to create terrorist controlled areas of Somalia. US and terrorists colluding once again

[@Internut1985]

After the warlord era finished comes Al shabab finally Al shabaab is being defeated and Somalia is mostly making progress albeit slow

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

@dariot707 Well if you actually knew, you would know that the US-backed Ethiopian invasion destroyed the Islamic Courts Union that came to power in 2006. Somalia was recovering in 2006. Do research next time.

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

@fuoco1365 if Somalia was left alone, it would have recovered as the Islamic Courts Union were returning stability. George Bush gave the green light to Ethiopia to invade and destroy it based on alleged links to terror. The CIA also funded warlords against the union. The US-backed Ethiopian invasion completely destroyed stability and led to the famous piracy incidents. Remember that next time you hear about it

[@cubismo85]

30:52 "Pray for war" American forces was hesitant to stir up commotion in Somalia, i guess it had been too long since Vietnam, many wanted to get a share of the action.

[@jimkeddy7905]

I know it doesnt matter , and its not a biggy folks and i could be wrong , however in or around 28 : 32 on ward ... 28:35 , it mentioned U.S Helicopters began dropping leaflets, again maybe 🤔🧐 im wrong but the Hughie Hellicopter had an Australian Air force Insignia on its side ... Well could be wrong , i thought 💭 i could vagley make out like a tiny red Kangaroo 🦘 and white with litle blue 🔵 ring , Perhaps some one out there reading may be aible to say ye , it actually was an Australian contingent that played a roll in Dumping leaflets out , Any Boddy or any Aussies out there can back me up or shut me down 😊... Actually im gna pause it and see if i can see that any clearer

[@garywillford]

My recollection is that they were Italian not Aussie. In fact, I still have a couple of the leaflets because they flew right over Sword Base and dropped a bunch of them on us. I remember my soldiers joking that if they turned in their weapons to the UN, would the Army let them go home because that’s what the leaflets seemed to say.

[@jimkeddy7905]

@@garywillford Supper thanks Gary , Do you recoll seeing any Irish peace keepers ?.. Sword Base " what nationality?,

[@garywillford]

@@jimkeddy7905 Americans on Sword, and sorry I do not recall seeing any Irish.

[@jimkeddy7905]

@@garywillford , AHH ye sword was the big hangers... Well the Irish ☘️ I think far as I know had a Transport company strength, operating some place outside MOG , so probably wouldn't have operated in your A.O , there was a Contingent of Rangers Attached, perhaps platoon max/ min , acting as escorts for Resupply Convoys traveling to the Docks , and as a. Q R F , man I'm just thinking 🤔 , 💭 if Irish Rangers, were Mobilised to asist when your Black hawk Helicopters were attacked. They surely would have shown to be a asit on the day , and days of the Mission. They truly must have been long long tiresome Days none stop Going the whole time .

[@jimkeddy7905]

@@garywillford .