Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has sparked outrage for a 2017 tweet that appeared to criticize U.S. forces for killing “thousands” of Somalis during the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” mission—a death toll that is widely disputed.
The tweet is recirculating on social media after journalist John Rossomando of The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) dug up the October 2017 post on April 22. Omar, a Somali refugee, was at the time rebuffing a Twitter user who asserted that the Battle of Mogadishu, which left 18 U.S. soldiers dead and another 73 wounded, was the “worst terrorist attack in Somalia history.”
