Mogadishu Quotes

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

— William Hague

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

— Ridley Scott

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I…

— Siad Barre

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on…

— Dick Armey

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with…

— Nadifa Mohamed

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to…

— Anthony Zinni

Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“In the city, the ‘Battle of Mogadishu’, as al-Shabaab’s offensive was known, intensified street by street with trenches, snipers and indiscriminate shelling.…

— Ben Rawlence

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the…

— Tucker Carlson

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic…

— Diriye Osman

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of…

— Mark McKinnon