Ilhan Omar said ‘thousands’ of Somalis were killed in ‘Black Hawk Down’ mission

By Diana Stancy Correll

Published April 23, 2019 4:00am ET

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Ilhan Omar said ‘thousands’ of Somalis were killed in ‘Black Hawk Down’ mission — Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, during a hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget. | (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., once said “thousands” of Somalis were killed by U.S. forces in the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” mission.

The freshman congresswoman’s missive in a 2017 tweet was dug up on Monday. She had been rebuffing a Twitter user’s assertion that the Battle of Mogadishu, which killed more than a dozen U.S. soldiers, was the “worst terrorist attack in Somalia history.”

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