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May they rest in peace
May God comfort their loved ones.
Posted on 08/06/2011 9:56:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
A US helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan has killed 31 US special forces and seven Afghan soldiers, President Hamid Karzai's office says.
US media reports that many of those killed were from the elite Navy SEALs.
Neither the US nor Nato have confirmed the cause, but witnesses, officials and the Taliban say it was shot down.
The incident is believed to be the biggest single loss of life for US forces in Afghanistan since operations began in 2001.
The Chinook helicopter went down overnight in Wardak province, the statement from President Karzai's office said.
It was returning from an operation against the Taliban in which eight insurgents are believed to have been killed.
A senior official of President Barack Obama's administration said the helicopter was apparently shot down, Associated Press news agency said.
An official with the Nato-led coalition in Afghanistan told the New York Times the helicopter was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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ABC News said 25 Navy Seals were on board, plus seven Afghan special forces soldiers, five crew and one interpreter.
AP says most of those killed were from Seal Team Six - the same unit which killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan May.
The size of Team Six is not known.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Am I the only one who wonders how it happened that the chopper carrying the same men who took out bin Laden was so precisely targeted? Do you suppose one or more or our Afghan “partners” tipped the Taliban?
Let’s get our folks the hell out of there and let the natives resume what they’ve been doing for over a thousand years: Killing one another.
Heartbreaking...
May God give their families comfort.
My son deploys to AF in about 6 weeks. I’m more worried about this deployment (the first with the JEF in office) than his two prior deployments to Iraq. And he was in Haditha and Fallujah!
Gee. we all feel better now.
Wow!! God Speed our brave warriors, That is horrible, shot down with a RPG no less??? Where was the cover? We do not have no gunships anymore? This is terrible and should NOT have happened ,Ever!
Agreed, there are enough 60’s hippie types all over the fed gov’t and especially state dept to have burned them, but then again it could have just been a lucky shot, it does happen.
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16 posts down before someone figured it out. This stinks to high heaven. Chinooks are ubiquitous in Afghanistan, how is it that the one PACKED with the most valuable commodity we have in this war just happens to fly over a Taliban mule at the ready with a stinger (my guess). A lot of money changed hands to get this information. The Saudi’s are (once again) suspect number one.
God Bless America’s warriors, our beloved special forces.
This is our worst day since 9/11 people.
Exactly my thoughts. Like the scud that took out that Army barracks in GW I, sometimes the bad guys just roll boxcars.
Prayers for all our people.
Prayers for your son’s safety.
Just posted .. Seal Team 6 not involved in this crash
THanks for the Update Kristinn!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2759692/posts
31 Dead, Including 25 Navy SEALS, in Afghan Chopper Attack
CBS News via WIBW ^ | Saturday, August 6, 2011 | David Martin
Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:11:26 PM by kristinn
KABUL, Afghanistan — A helicopter crash in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak province has killed 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan soldiers, the country’s president said on Saturday. It was the highest number of casualties recorded in a single incident in the decade-long war.
More than 20 U.S. special operations forces killed, most of them Navy SEALs. They were not members of SEAL Team 6, as some reports claim. The crew of five U.S. servicemen was also killed along with seven Afghan commandos, a civilian interpreter and a dog. Bodies are being evacuated from the crash site.
The real shame will be we may not ever get to know who they were for a long time.. we still have active personnel that could be compromised in future missions were they identified.
How do we know this story isn't misdirection?
I'll start the conspiracy theories favoring the White Hats now.
The story is that the leaders of the SEAL Team "Six" as we like to call them, were compromised by our current batch of traitors Barry and Joe so it was necessary to fake their deaths so that this Team can do the real Black Jobs that the Enemy in the White House would never allow to happen. Who else could take out Soros but the guys who got OBL?
Note to Brad Thor - I am giving you a whole new plot line and story arc here since Havath looks likes he is getting too old to be the super hero. Mix these "dead" dudes with the Athena Project women and you will have a FOX television series.
After varying reports, latest is casualties were members of Team 6 but not members of group that made Bin Ladin’s demise ‘official’ history in Pakistan.
Regardless, a terrible waste and loss.. They will be missed.
BBC Update
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14430735
US special forces Afghan helicopter downed ‘by Taliban’
BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says the crash was a significant loss for the international mission
Thirty US troops, said to be mostly special forces, have been killed, reportedly when a Taliban rocket downed their helicopter.
Seven Afghan commandos and a civilian interpreter were also on the Chinook, officials say.
US sources say the special forces were from the Navy Seal unit which killed Osama Bin Laden, but are “unlikely” to be the same personnel.
This is the largest single US loss of life in the Afghan conflict.
The numbers of those killed have now been confirmed by the Nato-led mission in Afghanistan.
The Chinook went down in the early hours of Saturday in Wardak province, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office.
It was returning from an operation against the Taliban in which eight insurgents are believed to have been killed.
A senior official of President Barack Obama’s administration said the helicopter was apparently shot down, Associated Press news agency reports.
OMG. Wonder who in our government told?
May God Bless them all and ease the suffering of those who love them. Please bring them ALL home.
true Americans suffer and die for his right to be a stupid jerk....
God bless America.....please...
There are rumors on the net that this was
pay back to the Muslim overloads.
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