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Black Hawk Down: The Battle Of Mogadishu
Black Hawk Down is a film portrayal of “the battle of Mogadishu”, also known as, Operation Desert Serpent or UNOSOM II. Just as on that fateful day of October 3, 1993, US Army Rangers and Delta Forces on a mission to capture Aidid’s main comrades encounter his heavily armed militia and a battle ensues. Although the movie was filmed in Morocco, the setting resembles Mogadishu, Somalia with almost precisely.
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