We got him, the, there was a couple dozen other people that we know who they were. We extracted the two guys are in that building. We knew it was a tough mission, but 35 minutes into it, man, we were done.
So we knew going in, it was a bad part of town. So we would rather go in at night, but it was a daylight raid. So if you know, people are going to shoot, it's preferred, they don't see you. Right? And I always say, they call them bad guys for a reason because bad guys don't wave at you when you show up at their house and shoot back.
Daylight raids are not preferred and, just because the lights are on and they can see, they can see you. So what we're told is that there's two HVT- so high-value targets are in this building in the middle of downtown Mogadishu. We go in and a, and a mission comes down. And that's just like a firefighter, police officer. He just yells get it on, which meant gear up. I was writing a letter home to my mom and, the guy walks out of the airplane hangar, and that's, it goes down. So there everybody's doing whatever they do. So it was taking its toll because we were all pretty tired. We'd run 44 raids, six air assaults, and we still didn't have this guy. And we had a, you know, a tier level of most-wanted people underneath him that we were after. We were after this Aadid, and he was a warlord and he was our most-wanted. We'd been running nonstop raids into the city. We had been in the country for almost three months. I started the interview by asking Keni how that Dan Mogadishu started. I'm Brian Lord and on the show today, we have special forces, army ranger and award-winning country music artist Keni Thomas, as he shares his part in the story made famous by Ridley Scott's movie, Black Hawk Down.
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