A resurfaced tweet from Rep. Ilhan Omar saw the Minnesota Democrat claim U.S. forces killed “thousands†of Somalis during the 1993 “Black Hawk Down†mission -- despite multiple analysts concluding the number was much smaller.
In the October 2017 tweet discovered by journalist John Rossomando, Omar was responding to a Twitter user who'd highlighted that more than a dozen U.S. soldiers were killed and another 73 were wounded in the Battle of Mogadishu, saying it was the “worst terrorist attack in Somalia history.â€
Omar, a Somali refugee who was then a Minnesota state representative, refuted the tweet, insisting that “thousands†of Somalis were killed by American forces.
“In his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day,†Omar tweeted.
She also included the hashtag, “NotTodaySatan.â€
The number of Somali casualties in the Battle of Mogadishu is widely disputed. A representative of the Somali National Alliance estimated that only 133 militiamen were killed during a 2001 interview while “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War†author Mark Bowden estimated roughly 500 Somalis were killed. As the Investigative Project on Terrorism also noted, the Rand Corporation reported that about 300 civilians were killed while others estimated nearly 1,000.
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