Notice that this article is attributed to sources inside Karzai’s government..Karzai made the first announcement of the crash....not US HQ..something stinks here..
Just normal practice these days. We have to notify Afghan officials when we do operations now. That means that the Afghan government (and the Taliban) have a better line on what our high level SOF units are up to than the rest of the military, or the U.S. at large.