ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Initially, we had reports that there had been some Americans captured. We didn't know how many. We kept waiting to find out. And pretty soon a videotape emerged of Warrant Ofc. Michael Durant, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot who had been captured by the Iraqis. He looked bruised and beaten. We didn't know if that was from the injuries he sustained when the helicopter went down or whether he had been mistreated by the Somalis.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How old?</s>MICHAEL DURANT: Thirty-two.</s>MCINTYRE: The picture really sent shock waves through the Pentagon. It was seen as appalling, and it underscored all of the questions about the mission in Somalia. The mission had started because of horrific pictures of starvation, and the thought that the United States, through a humanitarian mission, could help save hundreds of thousands of starving Somalis. And now television images that were equally appalling of the bodies of U.S. service men being dragged through the streets, the bruised and battered body of Chief Warrant Ofc. Michael Durant, who was a captured American, also helped end the mission in Somalia. So in a way, it;s kind of ironic. It was television pictures that got the United States in. It was also television pictures that got the United States out.
CNN 20: Michael Durant is Captured, October 4, 1993