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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 131408" data-attributes="member: 515">In response to billd91's comment that the soldiers "tried to protect a helicopter downed by a fairly lucky hit." The helicopter was not downed by a fairly lucky hit. The guys who took down the helicopter knew what they were doing -- they had years of practice in Afghanistan.Not many people know, because it wasn't learned until years later, that the men who fired the shot that brought down the helicopter on that mission were terrorists financed by Osama bin Laden. He spent the money to train them in Afghanistan, and he spent $2 million to move them to Somalia after the Americans went into Mogadishu. They had been waiting there for an opportunity to strike against the Americans. That day was their first chance, and they took it. It was Osama bin Laden's first strike against the U.S.Bin Laden's men had learned the technique for taking out helicopters with RPGs from the rebels who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After the war, they started teaching the technique to revolutionaries and terrorists training in the country.I saw a very interesting report about all of this on MSNBC back when the movie "Black Hawk Down" first came out. In part it was a repeat of a story they had done years earlier, shortly after the mission, and then they added some updates of things learned in the years afterwards. They interviewed several of the soldiers involved, and some of the commanding officers who made the decisions which affected the mission, and with some of the advisors in the Clinton administration.</blockquote>

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