ABSTRACT
Two notable Hollywood films about war appeared in 2002. The first film, Black Hawk Down, detailed what went wrong when a US Ranger-Delta Force mission in the Bakar Market areas in Mogadishu in October 1993, attempted to capture key aides of the Somali warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid. This mission cost the lives of 18 US Special Forces soldiers with another 100 wounded. It essentially killed Operation Restore Hope that was aimed at bringing stability and humanitarian relief to the East African nation.
