Somalis flock to see bootleg film

Thursday, January 24, 2002

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The images projected onto a wall were blurred and the sound wobbly, but there was no mistaking it was a bootleg version of the film "Black Hawk Down" -- especially when the young Somali men in the audience jumped up and cheered after an American helicopter was hit by Somali gunmen and crashed.

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