Alexander Cockburn points out some uncomfortable truths about the US’ Somalia expedition which were glossed over in the Hollywood blockbuster Black Hawk Down:
- U.S. troops killed unarmed men, women and children from the outset of their mission
- GI John “Stebby” Stebbins, renamed Company Clerk John Grimes in the film, is now serving a 30-year sentence in Fort Leavenworth military prison for raping a 12-year-old girl.
- A subsequent U.S. Army investigation of organized racism in the U.S. Army… concluded the problem was particularly serious in all-white, so-called “elite” and “Special Operations” units.
(Thanks to Utne Web Watch for the link)
