(IPT) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has faced a series of controversies over her statements about Israel, Jews and even the 9/11 attacks. Each time, allies were quick to rally to her side and argue the statements weren’t hateful exhibitions of ignorance.
But they’ve been largely silent this week after the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s (IPT) revelation that she cast U.S. soldiers as the bad guys in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, better known as the “Black Hawk Down” incident.
In response to a Twitter post calling the Mogadishu battle the “worst terrorist attack” in Somali history because 19 American soldiers were killed and 73 wounded, Omar falsely claimed that the United States killed thousands.
“In his selective memory, [the writer] forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! #NotTodaySatan,” Omar wrote in 2017, while still a Minnesota state legislator.
