Some time before the ill fated raid depicted in Black Hawk Down several US Cobra helicopters carried out a raid in a hotel, where they fired their missiles at the occupants who were having a meeting. The problem here is that the occupants were chosen members of the clans that were in opposition to Aideed and were meeting that day to discuss methods of usurping or negating Aideed's influence in Mogadishu.
And guess who was president when this attack was authorized? Bill Clinton! Yet interestingly this article does not mention his name, just G.H.W.B! I find that weird ...but anyway i digress......
However the Cobra attack in one fell swoop eradicated the only feasibly real domestic opposition Aideed faced and allowed him to churn up the crowds against the states even more. Some have claimed that is one of the main reasons even women and other (normally, even for Somalia) non-combatants came out firing at the fallen Deltas and Rangers. Aideed (like the tyranical demagogue he is) had made everyone see the US as demonic oppresors, and thanks to stupid intelligence (obviously from people in suits chilling in Washington) our Cobras had blown the guys who might have made the carnage have a lesser magnitude (obviously Aideed's guys would still have tried to kill our valiant soldiers, but it would not have been the whole of Mogadishu grabbing Kalashnikovs and RPGs and training them on our guys). And although the Aideed militia, as well as pockets of al Queda would still have attacked our forces, that would have been better than to have virtually thousands shooting off at you in the dark (even if they are horrid shots thousands of guns means a greater likelihood one bullet may get you ina vital spot). Hence there would still ave been some sort of attack (carried out by Aideed's militia and the smattering of al Queda forces that were in Mogadishu then ....the guys believed to have used the 'tinkered' RPGs that brought down the Black Hwaks), but the thousands of swarming Somalis may have been avoided.
Thus essentially you could say that the silly missile attack on the Mogadishu hotel that killed the opposition people comprised a technical 'bombing' of Somalia in a sense (not in the magnitude of Iraq, but it still led to other factors getting involved later on that led to the death of more US soldiers than was necessary).
Personally i think one of the good things that arose from Somalia is that from then on battlefield commanders had more authority over their men than the 'suits' sitting in an air conditioned office in Washington DC playing 'Battleship' with American lives.