Every time I encounter a Somali person on
the bus to or from work, Ridley Scott's 2001 film 'Black Hawk Down', which is
set in Somalia, springs to mind. And I wish I had the chutzpah to ask them what
life was really like in Somalia, at the height of warlord Mohamed Farrah
Aidid's misrule. And what they thought of Scott's cinematic interpretation of
Somalia and the events of that Sunday in 1993, when several U.S. army Black Hawk
helicopters were shot down in the war-torn capital Mogadishu.
