Black Hawk Down: One hell of a movie

[Lonestar]

The "Grimes" persona is based upon Stebbins, who is now serving 20 years for statutory rape.

[DinoDoc]

Are you sure that it is statutory rape? I thought that it was another charge all together.

Here's your cookie anyway.

[David Floyd]

Yeah, it was statutory rape.

Who was Grimes, again? I forgot.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Yeah, it was statutory rape.

Oh well. Guess I got some misleading info about the 12 year old girl then.

Who was Grimes, again? I forgot.

"Grimes" was the company clerk, IIRC.

[Sava]

The movie rocked. I think the US should get involved in more conflicts that aren't our business just so we can have cool movies jk

I liked it when that skinny got hit by the RPG.

[David Floyd]

The movie rocked. I think the US should get involved in more conflicts that aren't our business just so we can have cool movies

Yeah, WW2 is another great example of this

Sorry couldn't resist

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DanS
"His son, Hussein Aidid, a former Marine and ex-US citizen has assumed his father's mantle as the de facto leader of Mogedeshiu."

Amazing. I didn't know that and don't know what to make of it now.

Re the Somali habit of moving toward the action, I think a majority were/are on skat (hallucinagenic laced tobacco-like leaf, IIRC), so they were totally whatcked out of their minds.

Man, what a fvcked up place.

Roger that.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by SoulAssassin
The movie rocked. I think the US should get involved in more conflicts that aren't our business just so we can have cool movies jk

I liked it when that skinny got hit by the RPG.

You mean the one who in real life lost his vision, his hearing, his left hand, his right leg, and had his body filled with burning shrapnel?

He's got some of his vision back now, some of his hearing, but still goes through life with two missing limbs and a lot of holes in him.

The Somalis liked using RPG's as anti-personnel weapons.

[faded glory]

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Cinema goers should not expect a history lesson from the military thriller "Black Hawk Down," which sidelines the role Malaysia played in rescuing U.S. troops in Somalia, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said.

"We are disappointed that the film 'Black Hawk Down' had denied the sacrifices of our Malaysian Battalion team during the rescue operations when two U.S. helicopters went down in Somalia," Najib was quoted as saying by Wednesday's New Straits Times newspaper.

"We cannot stop anyone from making their movies for commercial value... however, we have to take it with a pinch of salt," the minister added.

However, Najib's spokesman told Reuters he had not yet seen the movie, although he had read the book.

Eighteen U.S. Army Rangers and one Malaysian died on October 3, 1993 when Somali militias shot down two U.S. helicopters in the capital Mogadishu.

The Red Cross reported 500 Somalis wounded and reporters saw truckloads of dead after what was one of the deadlier firefights in a botched U.S. and United Nations military intervention in Somalia between December 1992 and March 1995.

The Ridley Scott-directed film, produced for the Sony Corp. (6758.T) by Revolution Studios, depicts an abortive U.S. effort to oust Somali warlord General Mohamed Farah Aideed.

The production led the North American box office last weekend and also opened at number two in Britain and number one in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

The New Straits Times also quoted Colonel Mohd Rozi Baharom, the then deputy commander of Malaysia's contingent in Somalia, as voicing disappointment at the film's version of events.

"Our soldiers were shot at from every angle and it was very intense for everyone.

"I would rather that the writer did not even mention the role of the Malaysian troops during the rescue than change the whole history," he was quoted as saying.

I heard the somali's cheared each time a soldier went down

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by faded glory




I heard the somali's cheared each time a soldier went down

Oh come on. Like Americans don't cheer when German or Japanese planes get shot down in WWII movies?

[Dominikos]

What's this I hear about Somali's cheering each time an American went down?

If the US believes that it has the right to go into action wherever it pleases for whatever stupid purpose, then the people of those nations have all the right to go mad with joy at seeing some American haughty, beefy, army ranger cowboy get killed!

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~Emperor Dominik~

[Dominikos]

If I were a Somali, I would have brought some popcorn along! Haha!!!

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~Emperor Dominik~

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Dominikos
If the US believes that it has the right to go into action wherever it pleases for whatever stupid purpose,

Agreed. We should have continue to let them starve to death. It wasn't our responsibility to try and feed those that at the time couldn't feed themselves.

If I were a Somali, I would have brought some popcorn along! Haha!!!

You would likely have been shot to death as were many others who did something similar.

[faded glory]

I agree......let them starve. Well, they already regret doing that ambush...since we puled out 300,000 have died in fighting or starved to death. Another 1,000,000 refugee's starving in Ethiopia and Eritrea.



They sow what they reap

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Dominikos
What's this I hear about Somali's cheering each time an American went down?

If the US believes that it has the right to go into action wherever it pleases for whatever stupid purpose, then the people of those nations have all the right to go mad with joy at seeing some American haughty, beefy, army ranger cowboy get killed!

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~Emperor Dominik~

Go **** yourself repeatedly. It might eventually trickle in and mix with what little you've got for brains, and give you a second point of IQ to go with the one point you have, asswipe.