America's Secret War In Africa

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U.S. Used Destroyers, Gunships and Spy Planes in Somali Hunt -- Danger Room

For the small team of U.S. Navy and Air Force commandos in northern Somalia on June 1, 2007, it must have seemed like history repeating itself. While hunting Islamic terrorists in the town of Bargal, the commandos had been pinned down by gunfire. Fourteen years earlier, a similar situation had resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemembers in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital — a tragedy that’s the subject of the book and movie Black Hawk Down.

But the commandos in 2007 had a few high-tech advantages over their predecessors.

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WNU Editor: The Military Times 6 part series on America's secret war in Africa can be read here.