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===Depiction of Somalis=== Soon after ''Black Hawk Down''{{'}}s release, the Somali Justice Advocacy Center (SJAC) in California denounced what they felt was its brutal and dehumanizing depiction of Somalis and called for its boycott.<ref name="Black Hawk Rising" /> The SJAC in Minnesota called for a boycott of the film for its portrayal of Somalis as "savage beasts shooting each other."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=McNeil |first=Donald G. Jr. |date=January 22, 2002 |title=Mogadishu Journal; For the Somalis, a Manhunt Movie to Muse Over |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/world/mogadishu-journal-for-the-somalis-a-manhunt-movie-to-muse-over.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> No Somali actors were used in the movie.<ref name="SFTBBH">{{cite web |date=January 24, 2002 |title=Somalis flock to bootleg 'Black Hawk' |url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/jan/24/somalis_flock_to |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122090058/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/jan/24/somalis_flock_to |archive-date=22 January 2011 |access-date=February 21, 2011 |publisher=[[The Associated Press]]}}</ref> Somalis attending a screening of a pirated copy of the film at a theater in Mogadishu said the film ignored the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of civilian adults and children caused by the Americans.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2002 |title=Somalis Watch Black Hawk Down {{!}} On the Media |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/131792-somalis-watch-black-hawk-down |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125105128/https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/131792-somalis-watch-black-hawk-down |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |website=WNYC Studios |language=en}}</ref> In an interview with the [[BBC]], the faction leader [[Osman Ali Atto]] said that many aspects of the film are factually incorrect. Taking exception to the ostentatious depiction of his character, Ali Atto claimed he looks nothing like the actor who portrayed him, nor that he smoked cigars or wore earrings.<ref name="WTDFSF">{{cite news |date=January 29, 2002 |title=Warlord thumbs down for Somalia film |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1789170.stm |url-status=live |access-date=February 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507102039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1789170.stm |archive-date=May 7, 2022}}</ref> These details were later confirmed by SEAL Team Six sniper [[Howard E. Wasdin]] in his 2012 memoirs. Wasdin also indicated that while the character in the movie ridiculed his captors, in reality, Atto seemed concerned that Wasdin and his men had been sent to kill rather than apprehend him.<ref name="Wasdin">{{cite book |last=Wasdin |first=Howard |title=SEAL Team Six β Memoirs of a US Navy Sniper |year=2011 |pages=225β226}}</ref> Atto additionally stated that he had not been consulted about the project, nor was he approached for permission to use his likeness, and that the film sequence re-enacting his arrest contained several inaccuracies:<ref name="WTDFSF" /> {{blockquote|First of all when I was caught on 21 September, I was only travelling with one [[Fiat 124]], not three vehicles as it shows in the film[...] And when the helicopter attacked, people were hurt, people were killed[...] The car we were travelling in, (and) I have got proof, it was hit at least 50 times. And my colleague Ahmed Ali was injured on both legs[...] I think it was not right, the way they portrayed both the individual and the action. It was not right.<ref name="WTDFSF" />|sign=|source=}} Wasdin also remarked that while olive green military rigger's tape was used to mark the roof of the car in question in the movie, his team in actuality managed to track down Atto's whereabouts using a much more sophisticated technique involving the implantation of a homing device. This was hidden in a cane presented to Atto as a gift from a contact who routinely met with him, which eventually led the team directly to the faction leader.<ref name="Wasdin"/>
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