A series of convoys were dispatched to relieve the cut-off troops, only to be driven back by withering fire. Instead of heading straight back to their base with their detainees in a ground convoy, the 100-odd Rangers and Delta commandos were forced to hunker down around the first crash site, as Aidid's forces converged on them from across the city. 3 mission was proceeding well until Aidid's militia shot down first one, then a second of the task force's Black Hawk helicopters. But after some early missteps the task force had begun steadily to take down Aidid's organizational structure. None had turned up Aidid himself, who had gone to ground when the United Nations placed a bounty on his head. The United States, in the form of the 450-man Task Force Ranger, was engaged in an undeclared guerrilla war with Aidid's Habr Gidr clan, and this was the task force's seventh such raid. 3, 1993, several helicopter-loads of Rangers and "Delta Force" commandos roped into the Somali capital's "Black Sea" neighborhood to seize two senior aides to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The basic outline of the battle was already well-known when Bowden began his research in 1997. Army, many segments of which appear to have tried long and hard to forget that the battle ever occurred. Indeed, the most grateful beneficiaries of Bowden's labor should be found in the U.S. troops since the Vietnam war will resonate well beyond the military history enthusiasts who typically lap up such fare. His graphic description of the fiercest firefight involving U.S. MARK BOWDEN HAS PRODUCED A SUPERB account of the October 1993 battle of Mogadishu.
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