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FRONTLINE explores the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam, in which elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed in Modadishu, Somalia. What started out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid turned into a tragic firefight that left eighteen Americans dead and eighty four wounded.

Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 20 December 18, 1992 SETTING A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT IN SOMALIA by TED GALEN CARPENTER Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of A Search for Enemies: America's Alliances after the Cold War. Executive Summary The Bush administration's decision to send nearly 30, 000 U.S. troops to Somalia is ...