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2/2: #Mogadishu: #Somalia: Al Qaeda and BlackhawK Down, 30 years later. Caleb Weiss, Bridgeway Foundation, Bill Roggio, FDD

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

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2/2: #Mogadishu: #Somalia: Al Qaeda and BlackhawK Down, 30 years later. Caleb Weiss, Bridgeway Foundation, Bill Roggio, FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/11/shabaab-claims-several-al-qaeda-leaders-present-during-infamous-black-hawk-down-incident.php

somalia 1993

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0:00.0

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0:34.3

very happy to have Caleb Weiss who's the Bridgeway Foundation in Africa but he's

0:40.4

also a man who has recovered our memories of Black Hawk Down.

0:45.5

The original event in October of 1993, the events of the movie in the fall of 2001 came to all of us as we were reporting on the burning

0:55.6

buildings in New York and this smoldering building in Washington. Where did Al Qaeda come

1:00.2

from? Who are they? Well, there's suggestion that Al Qaeda was an

1:04.5

organization that was being put together at least at least as early as 93 and

1:10.2

perhaps much earlier. I'm not looking for the origins, but Caleb's just

1:14.7

gone through a list of names associated with, eventually without Chabab and

1:19.6

eventually with the threat to the government of Somalia, in fact such a threat that

1:26.0

they have reason to believe Somalia is going to slip under the waves and become an Islamic

1:31.4

republic.

1:32.4

But all the names that Caleb you've just gone through

1:35.0

suggests that this was fundamental operating procedures for what would

1:41.5

become the al-Qaeda threat, the East Africa.

1:44.0

Embases in 1998, the first time we were all engaged in this because the president at the time,

1:51.0

Mr Clinton hurried back from his my memory Cape Cod vacation to

1:56.4

supervise to oversee the attack on on some aspects of al-Qaeda at the time, we didn't understand what it was, but we do now.

2:06.8

And there is the puzzle, Caleb, how it gains anybody to continue to deny that fundamental or Al Qaeda was present in Somalia.

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