Downed US Seals may have got too close to Bin Laden

Times Online ^ | 07/10/05 | Tony Allen-Mills

[Warriormom]

THE first sign of trouble was a radio message requesting immediate extraction. A four-man team of US Navy Seal commandos had run into heavy enemy fire on a remote, thickly forested trail in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

[Squantos]

ping

[tobyhill]

Special Forces still have the villages surrounded. I was thinking this maybe one of the reasons the mission kept going even after the Chinook went down.

[CheneyChick]

If reports of the beheading end up being true, that whole area will be just a memory and only found on an old map....

[msf92497]

Amen to that!!!

And smeared in pork entails!!!

[msf92497]

whoops. s/b

"entrails"

[The_Media_never_lie]

Not to second guess, but why only a 4 man unit? These were brave men, America's finest.

[msf92497]

Yer asking a civilian. I dunno.

[nuconvert]

pong

[dighton]

Ping to your mention here.

“Its insertion represented an extraordinary risk,” said the author of an influential military blog known as Wretchard. “They would be operating in an area known to be a stronghold of the Taliban, where any contact with the enemy automatically meant they would be grossly overmatched.”

[Squantos]

I really wish that were true.........problem is that whoever "was" there ain't now. Rescue forces have been turning over every rock to the best of my knowledge.....

Prayers to Lt Murphy and Petty Officer Danny Dietz's families....

[Stonewall Jackson]

I was wondering about this. I think they have trapped a top scumbag up there; whether it is Bin Laden, Zwahiri, or Omar, I really don't know.

[tkathy]

I agree. It bothers me that 4 were anywhere without backup.

[Wristpin]

"Not to second guess, but why only a 4 man unit?"

These weren't ordinary men.

[tobyhill]

I think it's going to be just wait it out time for the right time.

[Dog]

Sleath....4 men can move faster.

[sofaman]

Sleath? Must be military lingo?

[Dog]

Means they move very quietly.

[Kirkwood]

Sleath... what occurs after a slert?

[Michael.SF.]

And hide better.

Putting 1 + 2 together:

One= ...US aircraft bombed a compound in Kunar province last weekend. US officials insisted the compound was used by militants...

and

two = Pentagon spokesmen said Murphy’s unit was engaged in general reconnaissance as part of a sweep through the region

Looks like these were the guys who may have lit up the target.