What A Downed Black Hawk In Somalia Taught America

A U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over Somalia in September 1993, a month before the battle of Mogadishu. In December 1993, Somali children play around the wreckage of a U.S. helicopter in Mogadishu. "We immediately started taking fire from the ground. I could see people below us with weapons maneuvering about," he told Bowden. "We had gotten to a point ... where we kind of thought that we could intervene militarily without getting hurt, without our soldiers getting killed. The incident that I call Black Hawk Down certainly disabused us of that," Bowden tells Arun Rath, host of All Things Considered.

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