Blackhawk was shot down. Yes. You know . And the blackhawk helicopter. And there was, hes a very celebrated war reporter by the name of paul watson who took a photograph of Sergeant Cleveland who was the american serviceman who was killed and being dragged through the streets. Right, through the streets. Whose body was desecrated. And paul watson took these photographs, and they blew up all over the world. For them. Its also arguable that because of the International Reaction to those photographs, president clinton decided to pull out of somalia. And its also arguable that the presence of alqaeda in somalia was allowed to prosper because the american presence was withdrawn. And so paul watson, in addition to being this extraordinarily celebrated photographer who has a congenitally deformed arm, hes like this mythic figure. He believes himself to be haunted by that encounter. Some kind of almost possession from the body of this serviceman who he feels he contributed to the desecration b
Tell us about it. Yes. So during the american presence in somalia around 1993, the blackhawk was shot down. Yes. You know . And the blackhawk helicopter. And there was, hes a very celebrated war reporter by the name of paul watson who took a photograph of Sergeant Cleveland who was the american serviceman who was killed and being dragged through the streets. Right, through the streets. Whose body was desecrated. And paul watson took these photographs, and they blew up all over the world. And he won the Pulitzer Prize for them. Its also arguable that because of the International Reaction to those photographs, president clinton decided to pull out of somalia. And its also arguable that the presence of alqaeda in somalia was allowed to prosper because the american presence was withdrawn. And so paul watson, in addition to being this extraordinarily celebrated photographer who has a congenitally deformed arm, hes like this mythic figure. Haunted by that encounter. Hes a very rational man,