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The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent.It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against Somali National Alliance (SNA) fighters and other insurgents in south Mogadishu.
The SEAL team fired a total of 16 shots, killing Osama bin Laden, Khalid bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and al-Kuwaiti's wife, Arshad Khan, and wounding Osama bin Laden's wife Amal al-Sadah. [236] [237] Twenty minutes into the operation, Razor 1 took off from the roof of the main house to reposition to a landing spot outside the compound.
It is believed that one or multiple of the UH-60 Black Hawks used in the raid upon Osama bin Laden's compound on 1 May 2011 featured stealth technologies. [9] [22] [23] Prior to the raid, the existence of such helicopters had been unknown. One of the UH-60s had crashed during the raid, leading to the remains being recovered and studied by ...
The 2001 war film Black Hawk Down brought the deadly events of 1993’s Battle of Mogadishu to the big screen.. The Academy Award-winning film, which was directed by Ridley Scott and based on a ...
The battle would go on to have a dramatic impact on U.S. foreign policy. ... In a 2023 piece from Collider, writer Namwene Mukabwa notes Black Hawk Down's omission of a deadly raid by U.S. forces ...
The National Security Agency is revealing aspects it never disclosed before about its role in helping the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda founder and terrorist who ...
The Daily Telegraph reported that in 2002, a team comprising Special Air Service and Delta Force personnel was sent into the Pakistan administered Jammu and Kashmir to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Pakistani militant group HuM. US officials believed that Al-Qaeda was helping organize a campaign of ...
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday offered a revised version of his role in the discussions leading up to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.