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(Hadalsame) 06 Jan 2019<\/strong> – Christian was nodding off in the back of a Black Hawk helicopter when he heard the first explosion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\n remember thinking to myself, that was big… it had to be Americans,\u201d \nhe told The Daily Beast. \u201cNobody else had that kind of firepower in \nSomalia.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019d been orbiting the skies above Mogadishu since 2 \na.m. on July 12, 1993, a \u201cpretty uneventful\u201d day for his unit until he \nsaw thick smoke billowing in the near distance. Christian felt more \nexplosions pound his chest. Ten U.S. attack helicopters pumped 16 \nmissiles and over 2,000 rounds of cannon fire into the second floor of a\n house, the Abdi house, blowing out the stairwell that prevented people \nfrom escaping, and then blasting the building apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt blew the\n whole goddamn building,\u201d said Christian, who requested anonymity even \nnow because aspects of the operation remain classified and he has no \nauthorization to speak about them. \u201cI don\u2019t think whoever ordered that \nstrike could have reasonably expected not to have [civilian] \ncasualties.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was 10:18 a.m. and \u201cOperation Michigan\u201d was under way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S.\n forces were hunting General Mohamed Aidid, a Somali warlord on whose \nhead the United Nations and the United States had just put a $25,000 \nbounty. They wanted him arrested on charges he was responsible for the \nJune 5 ambush and killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers assigned to the U.N. \nOperation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II), a peace enforcement mission \ninvolving active combat and nation-building. The midsummer aerial \nattack, which was lauded as highly successful by the U.S. military, was \nseen as retaliation for the recent escalating violence. But instead of \nthe Aidid war council they sought, U.S. forces attacked a peace meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n disproportionate use of force and the violation of human rights and \nhumanitarian law resulted in overwhelming civilian casualties at a time \nwhen the U.N. and U.S. were not at war with Somalia. The Abdi house \nattack became widely regarded as a symbol of the U.N.\/U.S. loss of \ndirection in Somalia, from humanitarian champion to mass murderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, as the Trump administration dramatically steps up its drone strikes in undeclared battlefields that still include Somalia<\/a>, accountability and legal consequences are still virtually non-existent. There has also been a growing record of U.S. Special Operators<\/a> under this administration getting themselves and those they work with into dangerous and deadly situations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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