It came as a double surprise, given that the Somalis were essentially just mobs of armed militia," journalist Mark Bowden, whose best-seller "Black Hawk Down" became the basis of a hit Hollywood movie, told Military.com in a May 2019 interview. "The images of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets [were] a tremendous shock."
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