Battle of Mogadishu
1993 · Event
US Rangers and Delta Force attempt to capture lieutenants of Somali warlord Aidid; two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down and a 15-hour urban firefight follows. 18 American and several hundred Somali deaths; pulls the US out of Somalia and conditions Clinton-era restraint on intervention.
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