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Ilhan Omar Blamed American Military For Alleged Crimes Committed During Black Hawk Down

Josh Hammer

On Monday, John Rossomando of the indispensable Investigative Project on Terrorism unearthed a rather troubling tweet from freshman congresswoman and serial anti-Semitic conspiracy theory dabbler Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

In 2017, around the time she was meeting at the United Nations with infamous Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, then-obscure Minnesota state representative Omar tweeted, in reference to the infamous 1993 U.S. military operation against a Somali warlord’s militia, and during which 19 U.S. military heroes paid the ultimate price: “In his selective memory, [Ron Harris] forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! #NotTodaySatan.”

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