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What really happened to Extortion 17? New film probes 2011 helicopter crash that killed Navy SEALs
Just The News ^ | August 5, 2021 | Susan Katz Keating

Posted on 08/06/2021 4:42:02 AM PDT by OwenKellogg

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To: Bratch

Then he’s an idiot who has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.


21 posted on 08/06/2021 6:22:20 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Mr. K

unfortunately, I could believe the scenario you just described


22 posted on 08/06/2021 6:25:21 AM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: Yo-Yo
"The crash of Extortion 17 was not the Pakistan raid on Bin Laden’s compound."
No, but it was Obama getting even for it.
23 posted on 08/06/2021 6:26:36 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: OwenKellogg

10 second search reveals that CH-47’s did not have “black boxes” at that time. I have conformed that with a crew chief at the local Army Aviation base that has Chinook’s.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/23/army-delayed-chinook-helicopters-black-box-until-i/


24 posted on 08/06/2021 6:31:42 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

conformed = confirmed.

More Coffee miss, please.


25 posted on 08/06/2021 6:32:43 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Look up MH47s.

The 160th SOAR doesn’t fly CH47S.


26 posted on 08/06/2021 6:35:34 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Savage Beast

The Information Age has the potential to bring truth to all the people of the world. It also has a dark side: It can bring them untruth, disinformation, and propaganda, and it can support the law of the jungle.

The most important single thing that benevolent people can do is demand truth—truth for its own sake—whatever that may be, wherever it may reveal itself, regardless of the consequences.

* * *

Well said, Savage — but enlightened — Beast


27 posted on 08/06/2021 6:38:38 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit
Thanks, Po.

Truth is music. It soothes the savage beast, in all of us.

Those souls out there aching for enlightenment, need look no further than truth, and it's right there before us, for all to see.

28 posted on 08/06/2021 6:43:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilisation.)
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To: OwenKellogg

Its called tying up loose ends.


29 posted on 08/06/2021 7:53:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Manly Warrior

Extortion 17 was a CH-47 from the Colorado National Guard.

https://sofrep.com/news/extortion-17-setting-record-straight-myths-misinformation-extortion-17/


30 posted on 08/06/2021 8:08:25 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Savage Beast

Nice rant.....

People are fat and happy ....willfully ignorant


31 posted on 08/06/2021 8:10:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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To: wardaddy
People are fat and happy ....willfully ignorant
...wilfully blind to the immense danger they're in!

Will anything awaken those who are deafened by denial? The consequences are grave. History itself shouts warnings. The shouts are thunderous. Truth-seekers can only gasp in horror. Truth is ubiquitous; yet millions ignore it.


32 posted on 08/06/2021 8:18:42 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilisation.)
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To: Rappini
or Cobra gunship

you sound old! (just kidding, im old too)
33 posted on 08/06/2021 9:08:21 AM PDT by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: Bratch; Yo-Yo
" To appease the muzzie brotherhood that he was trying to help establish, he gave up the seal team.

He's saying Seal Team 6 was sacrificed because they took out bin Laden. "

Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember the operators for the Ben Laden raid were kept super secret.

Then, VP Biteme (the present fraud in the White Hut) let it slip (I'm betting purposely) that it was Seal Team 6 that got Obamer Ben Laden.

34 posted on 08/06/2021 9:42:41 AM PDT by crazy scenario (The burden of Damascus is next!)
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To: Mr. K

His responses on just about any topic are almost always racist.


35 posted on 08/06/2021 9:55:10 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: crazy scenario
Then, VP Biteme (the present fraud in the White Hut) let it slip (I'm betting purposely) that it was Seal Team 6 that got Obamer Ben Laden.
Brennen was first, then Biden, and finally Leon Panetta.

The Outing of the SEALs Has SecDef Ticked Off

By Mark Thompson | May 13, 2011
[...]

....White House homeland security chief’s John Brennan’s Monday on-the-record briefing, which offered far more detail than a background session conducted the same day at the Pentagon. Brennan spoke in front of cameras about bin Laden being protected by female human shields, and implied he was armed — both of which had to be retracted as untrue the next day (the very act of retraction means the speaker had drifted into discussing operational details that had to be…retracted).

[...]

Later the same day, May 3, Vice President Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag. While the press had been reporting SEAL Team 6 carried out the mission, no one in government had confirmed that fact.

But at a fancy dinner in honor of the Atlantic Council’s 50th anniversary, where U.S. NATO chief Adm. James Stavridis was honored, Biden couldn’t contain himself.

Let me briefly acknowledge tonight’s distinguished honorees. Admiral James Stavridis is a, is the real deal. He can tell you more about and understands the incredible, the phenomenal, the just almost unbelievable capacity of his Navy SEALs and what they did last Sunday.
(Feel free to ignore the fact that the SEALs killed bin Laden on Monday.)
Biden, never one known for verbal reticence, then repeated his gaffe:
Folks, I’d be remiss also if I didn’t say an extra word about the incredible events, extraordinary events of this past Sunday. As Vice President of the United States, as an American, I was in absolute awe of the capacity and dedication of the entire team, both the intelligence community, the CIA, the SEALs. It just was extraordinary.
(If you’ve every been to one of these shindigs, you know how boring they can be — so credit goes to Biden for livening things up.)
Not only did Biden say it twice, he got confirmation that same evening from a pretty good source: CIA director Leon Panetta, who told PBS that the decision to shoot bin Laden “was all split-second action on the part of the SEALs.”
Looks as if there was a full court press to make the information public.

With the benefit of hindsight, no way it WASN'T intentional, IMO.

36 posted on 08/06/2021 11:41:58 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: OwenKellogg

Thank you for the ping. Ten years! I am so disillusioned. Best wishes to you.


37 posted on 08/06/2021 9:38:41 PM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters.)
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