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re: black hawk down - propaganda Black Hawk Down somehow also didn't show the number of UN/US attacks in which innocent Somalis were killed and the huge amount of bungled raids on non-military installations by US commandos. (yep they are that good - but hey we'll give them scope because they were there on a humanitarian cause).

It also didn't show how, at least 200 Somalis -- mainly women and children -- were killed when a US Cobra helicopter gunship opened fire on a crowd in Mogadishu on September 10. (Cobras have not been used in inner city combat since the Vietnam War.)

This was the response given: military spokesperson Major David Stockwell told reporters that ``the women and children were combatants'' and that they posed ``an imminent threat against our soldiers''. (!!!)

The massacre began as a bulldozer accompanied by three tanks, four armoured personnel carriers and 100 ground troops started removing barricades in south Mogadishu. Armed resistance to the attack was followed by tank reinforcements. But when barricades were re-erected, largely by Somali children, the Cobra cannon attack started. According to Stockwell, the decision to fire on the Somalis was ``regrettable but a last resort''. One UN soldier was killed, bringing the UN death toll to 48 since May.

A day earlier, hundreds of patients, doctors and nurses were forced out of one of Mogadishu's main hospitals as UN Cobra and Black Hawk helicopter gunships attacked. A warning was broadcast to evacuate Medina hospital before 6 p.m. or be shot. Patients were forced to flee onto the streets with their hands on their heads while UN troops set up roadblocks, hoping to catch Somali clan leader General Mohammed Farah Aideed.

Love their work........Humanitarian to the last. I can't believe you people fell for Black Hawk Down hook line and sinker.

Love Eric Bana's work as well........