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Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6
FOXNEWS.COM ^ | 8/6/2011 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/06/2011 9:37:25 AM PDT by spiderfern

WASHINGTON -- The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/#ixzz1UGZcWiEh

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To: Terry Mross

I don’t want to sound like an Alex Jones person here, but since no one is supposed to divulge the names of men on secret ops, we will never know the truth. There are many who will. It will be interesting to eventually hear the truth.


261 posted on 08/06/2011 11:51:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I can't think of anything clever, so I'll just say, "Obama sucks.")
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To: spiderfern

Pay no attention to the financial downgrade - look over here.

This administration is a master of misdirection, and this is a huge bit of news that will take the nation’s mind off of our fiscal concerns.

This was no accident.


262 posted on 08/06/2011 11:52:18 AM PDT by tpmintx (The problems we face today are there today because the people who work for a living are outnumbered.)
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To: spiderfern

The Resident Evil seems to have made a deal..


263 posted on 08/06/2011 11:52:45 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Ax

Likewise, today’s murder of 31 of our best special forces people was probably a HUMINT coups that was at least enabled by the Illegal, to be charitable.


264 posted on 08/06/2011 11:53:25 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: spiderfern
polygraph all foreigners that knew of the operation...
265 posted on 08/06/2011 11:53:38 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Vermont Lt

I only meant the Fox story, not the people on this thread, I have seen the media do this before as they ignore the airmen and others, and they did it on the raid against Osama.


266 posted on 08/06/2011 11:53:44 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" became a New York Times, best seller.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Honoring Those Who Gave All
May they rest in peace
May God comfort their loved ones.

267 posted on 08/06/2011 11:54:05 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: butterdezillion
Every politician who poo-poohed the need for the rule of law as it related to Obama’s eligibility needs to answer

That is pretty much every member of the Congress, Senate and The Courts, along with CIA, ATF, FBI, especially Chief Justice Roberts, and his private swearing in ceremony.

268 posted on 08/06/2011 11:54:14 AM PDT by itsahoot (--I will still vote for Sarah Palin, even if I have to write her in.--No more traitors.)
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To: tomkat

I would point the finger at Pakistan first.


269 posted on 08/06/2011 11:55:28 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Vermont Lt

But someone has to know the names. Otherwise how do they notify next of kin. And the pile of crap we have in charge now will tell everything to their favorite reporters. And Biden would tell a girl scout who knocks on his door selling cookies if he thought it would impress her.


270 posted on 08/06/2011 11:55:28 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: ansel12

Weekend reporters in the summer. And its not even them. Its the dopes who are ripping the info from AP and putting it on the teleprompter.

The media just sucks.


271 posted on 08/06/2011 11:57:37 AM PDT by Vermont Lt ("Will No One Rid US of This Meddlesome Priest?")
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To: tomkat

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? DUHHHHH!

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.


272 posted on 08/06/2011 12:01:06 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Sir_Ed

Yes, father and son I believe.


273 posted on 08/06/2011 12:01:20 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: tomkat

My thoughts exactly. Is it not strange that a SEAL team makes a hit on Bin Laden and a few months later is wiped out.
I smell a RAT - a big freakin RAT!!!


274 posted on 08/06/2011 12:01:30 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Dick Bachert

Yes, I second that!


275 posted on 08/06/2011 12:02:27 PM PDT by mickie
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To: Chgogal; All

There is no need to suspect a conspiracy in this. It is what happens in wars like this. A lucky shot from an RPG and the chopper goes down.

We already know that our forces are honeycombed with spies, traitors and double agents but this most probably had nothing to do with any of them.


276 posted on 08/06/2011 12:02:51 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Red in Blue PA; cableguymn
Really? Check what Gen Casey said immediate after fort hood.

Absolutely correct.

Bump

277 posted on 08/06/2011 12:03:19 PM PDT by itsahoot (--I will still vote for Sarah Palin, even if I have to write her in.--No more traitors.)
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To: spiderfern
I am in anguish over the death of these heros.

May God grant their families and their fellow patriots comfort and peace.

And may God protect this great country and those who defend it.

278 posted on 08/06/2011 12:07:54 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: indylindy
I hope God exacts his toll from all of them.

Let us not forget the 69 million people who put this administration in power. Shame on all of you.

279 posted on 08/06/2011 12:08:07 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: null and void
Were they shot down or did one of the Afghan special forces flying with them go for his 72 virgins?

They had a local interpreter with them. That alone could be sufficient to either smuggle an explosive onboard, or to reveal the details of the flight so that Taliban fighters with RPGs can be positioned at mountain passes.

This is the classical "prisoner vs. guards" problem: the guards have to be watching the prisoner all the time and defeat every single attempt at escape, but the prisoner is always on alert for guards, and he only needs to get lucky once.

280 posted on 08/06/2011 12:08:40 PM PDT by Greysard
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