Posted on 07/02/2005 2:10:26 AM PDT by advance_copy
KABUL, Afghanistan - American warplanes bombed a suspected Taliban compound in an area where an elite U.S. military team has been missing for five days in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday.
It was not clear if there were any casualties from the airstrike.
"We conducted an airstrike on a target we deemed we had to hit immediately. The target was an enemy compound in Kunar province," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara said. "The bombing was done using precision guided munitions. The target objective was intelligence driven."
He said a "battle damage assessment is ongoing" and declined to speculate on casualties from the attack, which happened at dusk on Friday. O'Hara also declined to say if the airstrike was directly related to the missing military team.
He said earlier Saturday that there had been no sign of the team by rescuers who are desperately scouring the mountains near Asadabad town, Kunar province, close to the Pakistani border.
A purported Taliban spokesman claimed Friday that militants had captured one of the men.
Meanwhile in central Afghanistan, 18 rebels and two Afghan soldiers were killed in an assault on a Taliban hide-out in mountains where about 100 insurgents were thought to be camped, Uruzgan provincial Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said.
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U.S. soldiers shelter from the dust kicked up by a Chinook helicopter as it lands to pick them up from Bagh village, in Khakeran Valley, Zabul province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2005. From U.S. and U.N. officials down to Afghan villagers, there is growing fear that this country may be at a seminal moment with three years of state-building in danger of succumbing to the barrage of violence
(AP Photo/Tomas Munita)
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Ping
What or who was in that compound.
I think you fellas should read this.
Prayers for our troops, their families and friends.
Prayers for the missing warriors.
I bet Howard Dean escaped again.
Good catch on we had to hit immediately. Parley
Or what did the eye in the sky see the islamakazis doing to whom....?
If the lost team has made finally contact they may have been trailing the trash that hit the chinook back to their safe haven hide. Some of the really deep valleys will even preclude sat comm in worst conditions. Just a SWAG of course.....watching from the lazy boy recliner.
Translation of AP:
Even after 3 years of hard work in occupying and state-building .. the terrorists will ultimately win; we should just give up and go home.]
This translation further establishes for me the left's determined effort to LOSE the WOT. I'm stunned to realize that these people want to be attacked here in America. They would want martial law ..?? Amazing!
yup , Prayers for our troops , their families and friends , we love this good ol' USofA
Not exactly ... it is Sharia law they intend to establish.
Martial law with a whole host of other "benefits."
Why am I thinking there's more to this than meets the eye?
Only pray this is the case - (perhaps they have made contact and it hasn't filtered out - long shot but possible)
Each hour that goes back make the outcome look less and less positive.
Thanks!
"Why am I thinking there's more to this than meets the eye?"
I've been thinking the same thing. I also find it odd that the media doesn't seem to be covering this story. Is it just me, or is there some sort of media blackout regarding this situation?
You mean the one remaining eye of Mullah Omar?
If one was taken hostage, wheres the outcry from those ever- supportive liberals we hear exist?
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