The Real Story Behind Black Hawk Down

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The 2001 American war film Black Hawk Down was based on the Battles held at Mogadishu. The United States army raided this town to capture Somali warlord and drugs dealer Mohammed Farrah Aidid.

Initially the task force attempted to capture two subordinates of Mohammed and the whole task was suppose to take no more then half an hour. But Somalia militants were armed with Rpgs and they shot down 2 Black Hawk helicopters as a effect of which the mission became a salvage mission extending to over 18 hours.

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The ending of the film shows that over 1000 Somalis died and just 19 American soldiers lost their lives. The warlord Mohamed was killed few days later and the normal in command soon after reTired from his duty after the accomplishMent.

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The film was banned in Somalia because they believed it was brutal and showed Somalis were inhumane. They were portrayed as though they did not know what was going on and they were attacking American soldiers just for fun. The Us troops in case,granted help to Somalia for their fight against corruption, increasing hostilities in the middle of separate groups and increased crime was beyond their control. But they were angry with Americans because their presence led to re-formation of old corrupt Barre regime. The Pakistan GovernMent also denounced the film as their soldiers were shown in bad light and no credits was given to the efforts made by Pakistani soldiers in the war.

The movie went through lots of changes and some critical sections were removed but it still did not please the historians, as they believed it was against all known recorded facts.

The Real Story Behind Black Hawk Down

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