On October 3, 1993, about a hundred u.s. Soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of mogadishu, somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a somali warlord. The action was supposed to take an...On October 3, 1993, about a hundred u.s. Soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of mogadishu, somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a somali warlord. The action was supposed to take an hour.