Inside the Deadly 1993 Firefight in Somalia | Ambush in Mogadishu (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
The inside story of a tragic 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, that left 18 Americans and hundreds of Somalis dead. At the time, it was known as the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam. The battle of Mogadishu went on to inspire the movie “Black Hawk Down.” (Aired 1998)This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Donate to FRONTLINE now: https://bit.ly/47DFzCb
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On Oct. 3, 1993, a planned 90-minute U.S. mission to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid in Mogadishu turned into a deadly 17-hour urban firefight in which hundreds of people died. Armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, Somali fighters shot down two U.S. military helicopters and ambushed elite U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force units. The Clinton administration would announce plans to withdraw U.S. forces from Somalia days later.
The 1998 documentary “Ambush in Mogadishu” investigates what led up to the disaster — including a civil war and famine in Somalia, attacks on U.N. peacekeepers by Aidid’s forces, muddled U.S. military and diplomatic policy on Somalia, and Washington, D.C.’s failure to coordinate with the U.S. military on the ground.
In forensic detail, “Ambush in Mogadishu” goes inside the firefight that trapped a number of U.S. Army Rangers as they moved into a maze of alleys in Mogadishu to try to save comrades on a downed Black Hawk helicopter. In the documentary, surviving Rangers paint extraordinarily vivid pictures of an intense and bloody battle that took a deadly toll on U.S. forces and also killed an estimated 350-1,000 Somalis, including civilians.
The battle of Mogadishu went on to cast a long shadow on U.S. military decision-making about humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. Part of the tragedy’s legacy, experts said in the documentary, was a U.S. reluctance to be drawn into crises in the ‘90s in other volatile countries, such as Bosnia, Rwanda and Haiti.
“Ambush in Mogadishu” was a FRONTLINE co-production with InVision Productions, Ltd. in association with BBC-2. The writer, producer and director was William Cran. The executive producer was Michael Sullivan. The senior executive producer was David Fanning.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
05:52 - Why U.S. Army Rangers Were Deployed to Somalia in 1993
11:40- The Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia in the Early ‘90s
22:50- The U.S. & UN’s Operations in Somalia & the Repercussions
28:40 - How the U.S. Mission to Capture Warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid Unfolded
39:34 - The Firefight Between U.S. Forces & Somali Fighters
47:11 - The Lasting Impact of the ‘93 Battle of Mogadishu
52:01 - Credits Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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