1. Black Hawk Down
By Mark Bowden

2. 10/3/93
3:32 PM —Task Force Ranger departs from the Mogadishu Airport.

3. 3:42 PM — Rangers surround the target building.

4. 4:02 PM —Prisoners are taken into custody.

5. 4:20 PM —Super Six- One is shot down.

6. 4:40 PM —Super Six- Four is shot down.

7. 5:40 PM — Somali crowds overrun the crash site of Super Six-Four, taking Durant prisoner.

8. 11:23 PM — A rescue convoy reenters the city.

9. 10/4/93
1:55 AM — The convoy reaches the trapped Rangers.

10. 5:30 AM —Convoy starts moving from the city north to the Pakistani Stadium.
“The Mogadishu Mile”

11. 6:30 AM —Eighteen dead and 73 wounded.
Somalians dead.

12. 10/15/93
Durant released

13. Impact
How did the Battle of Mogadishu change American foreign policy in the late 20th century and even through today?
How was the US intervention in Somalia different than the intervention in Iraq?
How would it be similar/different from a possible ground-force intervention in Libya?