Posted on 09/26/2005 1:42:06 PM PDT by cwiz24
Cactus and Bitterness Grow Where American Chopper Was Downed
Posted by Kevin Sites on Sun Sep 25, 7:22 PM ET
She lived here once, in a house behind this pitted dirt alleyway. But now, Maria Osman cannot bear to raise her head as she walks past.
This is, after all, the place where her already difficult life slipped the last few notches into misery, the place where pain can last a dozen years without pause. The place, she says, where an American Black Hawk helicopter fell from the sky and crushed her three-year-old daughter.
"There was not enough of her left to bury," she says, nervously covering her mouth with the end of her hejab (a traditional Muslim head scarf).
When American forces tried to protect the fallen chopper, gunfire broke out and Maria, still nearby the crash site, was hit. It took her two and half years to recover from the wound.
She pulls back the material covering her right arm to show me a brown, leathery roadmap of scar tissue that runs from above her wrist to below her shoulder. The arm is nearly worthless, Maria says, useful now only as another reminder of that day.
That day, Oct. 3, 1993, became known as the Battle of Mogadishu, when an American mission against Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid went terribly wrong.
The Somalis shot down not one but two Black Hawks that day -- one of them, call sign Super Six One, would change Maria Osman's life forever.
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Oh, yes, they're terribly "bitter." That's how it goes when America-hating leftists write headlines.
It didn't "fall". And where's that little bastard who was smiling over the body of the dead Ranger?
Gee...my heart bleeds for the poor savages.
Who really gives a rat's behind about what killers in Somalia "feel" over anything at all?
Clinton's Fault!
Bitter? Bad looting that day?
Tell me Maria, how that Blackhawk *fell* from the sky?
Note to Maria Osman: the Blackhawk helicopter did not fall from the sky for the specific purpose of killing your child. It fell from the sky because it was shot at, and shot down, by your fellow, murdering thug, countrymen. If you have any "gripe" coming it's from the remnants of Mohammed Farah Aideed's clan. If you're expecting a cash settlement from Uncle Sugar (as you no doubt are), don't hold your breath.
I'll tell them where they can put their bitter feelings.
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I don't recall any WMD's being found either.
We should have nuked that pit.
Hmmmm? Maria? A Christian woman living in the middle of Muslim jihadist Mogadishu?
<<< Head scratching. >>>
Hey, you Skinnies: Shut up, or it's IRENE.
EF 'em all!!!
And by the way she would feel a lot better if Uncle Sam wrote her a check for umpteen million dollars and garanteed her a spot on GMA.
Hey Maria, blame your uncivilized countrymen for shooting down people trying to save them from being starved by hideous leaders. Idiot.
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