(v/o gulf war) 05.48īut Somalia as a nation had ceased to exist. Who could possibly oppose it? Certainly not Somalia. Under Bush's plan, the US would provide the backbone of a multinational military force to secure supply lines and deliver food to the starving.Īnd why not? Fresh from victory in the Persian Gulf, where a coalition of nations seeking a new world order had vanquished Saddam Hussein, the UN's mission seemed comparatively easy, and done for all the right reasons. Somalis were dying at an estimated rate of one thousand per day as relief workers were murdered, cargo ships were shelled in port and trucks were hijacked on the road. Throughout 19, relief groups had tried to help, but where factional fighting hadn't stopped the flow of food, bandits had. We come to your country for one reason only - to enable the starving to be fed.

For as long as it took to feed the starving, might would make right. 300,000 people - including a quarter of all children under the age of 5 - were already dead, with another one-and-a-half million - roughly a quarter of the population - at risk. Somalia, an East African country of some 6 million, was being decimated by famine and civil war. They came from the richest nations on earth to help one of the poorest. “Somalia: Good Intentions, Deadly Results”Based upon the reporting of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Knight Ridder Newspaper Title graphic New World Order descended into chaos as the most ambitious humanitarian mission in modern history ended in bullets, missiles and death.īut if the moral seemed to be 'no good deed goes unpunished', that isn’t the story of how good intentions wrought deadly results in Somalia. TRACK (v/o scenes of celebration in Mogadishu, Somalia, October 1997) 03.13 On 'The Day of the Ranger', Somalia remembers America's bloodiest battle since the Vietnam War, when the world's greatest military power collided with one that was merely good enough. It's the closest thing to a national holiday in a country without a national government. What are we doing here, how have we mucked up so badly, how could this possibly have happened? SOT: ROBERT OAKLEY, US Envoy toSomalia 03.04 I know I guess it's unethical to shoot women and children but is it unethical when they're trying to kill you? SOT: MIKE GOODALE His eyes were wide open and his mouth was open like he was screaming but he'd already died, he was already dead. I was just shooting everything that moved.

SOT: Radio transmissionĪll of a sudden they're already shooting at us. We got a blackhawk going down, we got a blackhawk going down, we got a blackhawk crashed in the city. When our helicopter came in we immediately started taking fire from the ground. 3 and he tried to hand me his little packet to send off to his parents and I said, I said ‘No, keep it, I'm going to see you in about half an hour anyway, I said nothing's gonna happen’ and that was the last time I saw him. He walked up to me and said he had a really bad feeling about today meaning Oct. Up until October 3 and 4, every mission we did went exactly the way it was supposed to go. I don't know what the other guys were thinking but I was thinking ‘Wow, we're pretty much invincible.’ SOT: MIKE GOODALE, Army Ranger 01.13 The following program contains scenes of graphic violence and profanity.

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