Originally Posted By: Drakiis
our problems in Somalia had a lot to do with the fucking UN Peacekeeping force refusing to support us and a rapid destabilization of the area, combined with the senate refusing to fund the pentagon in the efforts there, not to mention a fucked up chain of command, the CIC was not directly responsible. OPSEC had their heads up their asses and intel was not real time like it is today, there are many factors to military action or lack there of, Clinton was the least of it.

According to Howard Wasdin, they had Aidid REAL time on the phone with his daughter. Since the CIA had found out about him sending his daughter a phone. They intercepted it and sent one in it's place that was bugged so they would know IN REAL TIME when it was in use. Since Aidid was never at one place for more than a couple days, they couldn't pin point him. So according to Wasdin's book, they had Aidid real time at his sisters house.

His explanation of why "Black Hawk down" went badly weeks after they had Aidid's location, they had went into Mogidishu and snatched other high profile figures in the same fashion they did the people they nabbed on the day of "Black Hawk down". He also stated it was bad timing since other ops like that weren't in the middle of the afternoon, while people were out and about the most.and the fact they had already seen how they were going insnatching people. when you add the U.N. to anything, you're asking for it to be fucked up. And Clinton was the one that wanted it to be a hush operation, that part was no secret. I agree it was other factors as well. But the bottom lime was, they had Aidid weeks before "black hawk down" and they were told to stand down.

Last edited by Wolfgang; 08/23/11 03:34 AM.