Comment Re:Black Hawk Down (Score 1) 426
The movie started with a caption "Based On The True Story" but that doesn't mean it have to be the whole truth. That's by Hollywood standard for telling the truth in "Based on The True Story" movies.
My brother's friend was in the Malaysian army reservists and served the Malaysian Battalion (MALBAT) peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu, Somalia during the crisis. He mentioned that it was the MALBAT forces APCs who went in with a Rangers company and a troop of Pakistani tanks that took the Rangers out. The bullets and RPGs were wheezing around like what was potrayed in the movie. Looks like the bullets and RPGs wheezing around is the most true thing in the movie. Their APC got dented by a RPG. There was not much mentioned how other forces were involved in rescuing the Rangers from their SNAFUed mission.
I found a letter posted by the Defense Attache of Malaysian Embassy that shed some light of what really happened. http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/417pgs.p df
According to Mark Bowden's book, the Rangers were greeted by MALBAT forces in the stadium with drinking water in mess tin. So, why did the producers made the Pakistani forces looks like they are a bunch of servants serving their "sahib" in trays of drinking water in airline cups? I didn't read the book, this was told by my colleague who read the book.
It is tragic for the Rangers to lost their brothers in arms. But that is one of the affect of war. I hats off to those forces; be it MALBAT, Pakistani or Rangers; involved in dangerous situation like in Somalia, for they brave their life for someone else's life.
My brother's friend was in the Malaysian army reservists and served the Malaysian Battalion (MALBAT) peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu, Somalia during the crisis. He mentioned that it was the MALBAT forces APCs who went in with a Rangers company and a troop of Pakistani tanks that took the Rangers out. The bullets and RPGs were wheezing around like what was potrayed in the movie. Looks like the bullets and RPGs wheezing around is the most true thing in the movie. Their APC got dented by a RPG. There was not much mentioned how other forces were involved in rescuing the Rangers from their SNAFUed mission.
I found a letter posted by the Defense Attache of Malaysian Embassy that shed some light of what really happened. http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/417pgs.
According to Mark Bowden's book, the Rangers were greeted by MALBAT forces in the stadium with drinking water in mess tin. So, why did the producers made the Pakistani forces looks like they are a bunch of servants serving their "sahib" in trays of drinking water in airline cups? I didn't read the book, this was told by my colleague who read the book.
It is tragic for the Rangers to lost their brothers in arms. But that is one of the affect of war. I hats off to those forces; be it MALBAT, Pakistani or Rangers; involved in dangerous situation like in Somalia, for they brave their life for someone else's life.
