And seemingly calling America “Satan.”
Via Free Beacon:
Veterans of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, which was commemorated in the 1999 book Black Hawk Down, slammed freshman representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for accusing them of murdering “thousands” of Somalis.
Kyle Lamb, who served as a Delta Force operator, and Danny McKnight, who was the Ranger colonel commanding U.S. troops, defended their mission, saying they were in Somalia to protect Omar’s clan, the Majerteen, from Mohammed Farah Aidid, a ruthless warlord, the Washington Examiner reported.
Nineteen U.S. troops were killed in Mogadishu in the bloodiest combat since the Vietnam War: 18 in the main battle from Oct. 3-4 and a 19th by a mortar two days later. The battle was immortalized in the 1999 book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and the 2001 Ridley Scott movie of the same name that starred Josh Hartnett and Ewan McGregor.
“In helping her tribe, we had to eliminate those who were bad,” Lamb told the Examiner. “She should be thankful we were there to help her people.”
McKnight, who was shot in the neck and arm, told the Examiner: “I really am offended, truly offended, by her comment and her thought that thousands were killed by us. Not true. Not true at all.”