He said he felt, as a reporter, he was in a good position to find out the backstory of Task Force Ranger and what happened in the battle that raged on Oct. service members being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by Aidid's fighters. Like many other Americans, he was shocked to see the television images of slain U.S.
'There had been to my memory no coverage, or anything, so there was really nothing to prepare Congress or the American people for that intense combat and for those terrible consequences,' Bowden said.
4, 1993, where a senior UN official confirmed that 12 US soldiers were killed following a battle with fugitive warlord Mohamad Farah Aidid's militia.īecause they were part of a covert mission, the six previous raids carried out in the summer of 1993 received no press coverage.
