My favorite war film is Black Hawk Down, which is directed by Ridley Scott and based on book by Mark Bowden that tells us about the Battle of Mogadishu, a raid integral to the United States' effort to capture Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The film won Academy Awards for best Film Editing and Soung in 2001.
The bad guy in this film is General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. He was the president of Somalia and a contorversial Somali military leader and often describes as a warlord. He was the chairman of United Somali Congress and later Somali National Alliance. Later he challenged the presence of United States troops in the country. General Aidid was one of the main targets of Operation Restore Hope, the United Nations and United States military operation that came to the country to provide humanitarian aid and to break the military siege.
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