Posted on 10/11/2010 3:42:06 PM PDT by earlJam
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that a British aid worker killed in an American rescue raid in Afghanistan last week may have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit — not in an explosion of a suicide bomber’s vest detonated by her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed her death on Saturday.
A grim-faced Mr. Cameron appeared at a news conference at 10 Downing Street to say he had learned of “this deeply distressing development” Monday from the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, who told him that an American-led review of the raid to rescue the aid worker, Linda Norgrove, “has revealed evidence to indicate that Linda may not have died at the hands of her captors as originally believed.”
He added: “That evidence and subsequent interviews with the personnel involved” — believed to have included a Navy Seals unit specializing in hostage rescues that has participated in numerous special forces raids in Afghanistan — “suggest that Linda could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the task force during the assault. However, this is not certain and a full U.S./U.K. investigation will now be launched.”
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She died because the taliban took her hostage. If they had not done that then no harm would have been done to her.
I did not write the headline. I agree with you.
Where was the SAS?
You hit it on the head...
I thought all the original articles said a nato operation.
Here is more from the article:
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Mr. Cameron said in his Monday statement, adding: “Linda was taken and held in a part of Afghanistan under U.S. command. That is why this operation was carried out by U.S. forces. From the moment Linda was taken hostage, General Petraeus has treated her as if she was a U.S. citizen. He and U.S. forces did everything in their power to bring Linda home safely.“
It was a NATO operation, carried out by US Navy Seals.
Sorry, that wasn’t aimed at you.
War = Death
What now Vietnization of the war, with all death caused by the actions of the U.S.; it’s a war zone…stop playing “cops and robbers.”
Kill thine enemy 12 cousins deep, stops war!
Who was in charge, Jimmy Carter?
Effing anti-American Cameron.
1)The woman died because of the Taliban.
2) The woman should not have been in a theater of war.
3) Aid work ina theater of war carries with it a substantial risk of death.
4) This woman knew the risk, and so did her superiors, or they should have known.
5) The only aid that can be delivered in a theater of war is delivered by the US Marines. They kill anyone who gets in the way of it.That means the aid gets to those who need it, not into the hands of the enemy, or crooked politicians, embezzlers.
Conclusion: Cameron is an a$$haole.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
Of course it’s America that is at fault. Somehow, it’s ALWAYS America’s fault, even when they flew the planes into the towers!
Every thing they say is PRO-Muslim and anti-America and anti-Israel. Everything. There is NO ‘objective’ reporting with the NYT. They are rabid fanatics to everything Arab and everything Left.
If you are captured by Arabs, of course they put a suicide bomb on you. Why wouldn't they? They put them on their sons, daughters, wives, all the the the time.
Why would a ‘dirty stinking Infidel’ get special treatment?
What the hell is this ? This revolves around our stupid ROE (rules of engagement). The woman was killed in an attempt to rescue her. It’s unfortunate but that sometimes happens so now what do they want to do ? Courts martuial one of the resucers, some poor GI who may have misinterpreted a movement by the enemy and responded during a military action.
Even the best laid plans go out the window quickly in this type of rescue effort.
Besides that, if this were a carter effort we would already be apologizing to the taliban and begging them to be nice.
Which implies that they may not have.
So why even report this until they facts are conclusive? Unless the objective is to make the military look inept.
NYT... ya think?
Naah.
The title does back up Gen. Patreaus:
Gen. David H. Petraeus, ..told him that an American-led review of the raid to rescue the aid worker, Linda Norgrove, “has revealed evidence to indicate that Linda may not have died at the hands of her captors as originally believed.”
She had no damned business being there in the first place!
How is Cameron anti-american?
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