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Report: U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan
Reuters | 9/28/01

Posted on 09/27/2001 9:46:57 PM PDT by kattracks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. special forces have been in Afghanistan for two weeks searching for Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the airborne assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, USA Today reported on Friday.

Citing unidentified senior U.S. and Pakistani officials, the newspaper said U.S. commandos arrived in Pakistan on Sept. 13 -- two days after the attacks -- and began moving into Afghanistan with orders to capture or kill the Saudi-born Islamic militant, or pin him down until the United States can launch air strikes.

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke refused to comment on the front-page story. The Pentagon was not making any comment on operations, she said.

Officials have said the U.S. "war on terrorism," declared after the terror attacks on New York and Washington in which nearly 6,500 people are dead or missing, would be an unconventional battle in which commandos could play a key role.

The newspaper, citing Pentagon officials in Washington and Pakistani military officials with direct knowledge of the operations, said U.S. special operations forces had landed in the Pakistani cities of Peshawar and Quetta.

Teams of three to five soldiers, supported by Black Hawk MH-60K helicopters based outside Afghanistan, began deploying into the country to locate bin Laden, concentrating their searches in caves and underground bunkers in southwest Afghanistan near Kandahar, the newspaper said, citing senior U.S. and Pakistani officials.

USA Today said the elite troops were having trouble finding bin Laden and had asked other nations for intelligence help.

Quoting U.S. officials, it said several elite military units were involved in the effort to find bin Laden, including the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALS and the British Army's Special Air Services.

Copyright © 2001 Reuters Limited.


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To: america-rules
SShh!
61 posted on 09/27/2001 10:53:51 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: kattracks
Wow! a whole REUTERS article about the TERRORIST Bin Laden and they never mentioned the word TERRORIST ... what a wan-na-be news source, kissing up to the Islamic terrorists.
62 posted on 09/27/2001 10:56:23 PM PDT by AgThorn
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
The longer we can keep the mudg on alert, the duller will be there senses when we do attack!
63 posted on 09/27/2001 10:57:24 PM PDT by Chapita
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To: kattracks
Let's don't tell Colin Powell. He'll probably get a collation to bring them home.
64 posted on 09/27/2001 10:57:26 PM PDT by Letitring
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To: kattracks, all
China Daily News reported basically this on September 16th.

http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/2001-09-16/33507.html

65 posted on 09/27/2001 10:57:34 PM PDT by surferUSA (Love It or Leave It)
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To: griffin
Knock it off. We got enough of that BS during the Kosovo War.
66 posted on 09/27/2001 10:58:00 PM PDT by Deb
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To: Reagan Man
>> Let's hope its true and we get Bin Laden real soon. Justice will prevail!

Let's go for VICTORY through annihilation of ALL of our enemies. Then, God can dispense justice!

67 posted on 09/27/2001 10:59:21 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
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To: surferUSA
"US Marine Green SEALs LMFAO

they covered everybody though,,,,,,,,Marine Force Recon, Green Beret/SF, SEALs,,,,yeeeehawww,,,,,,,now that was disinformation lol

You cant put guys in deep like they go and not run into close quarters combat, and when you do that people die,,,,,so lets hope and pray for the best for these brave guys.

68 posted on 09/27/2001 11:03:43 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: rbmillerjr
"US Marine Green SEALs LMFAO..."

Likly a translation error. But very funny I agree :)

69 posted on 09/27/2001 11:22:31 PM PDT by surferUSA (Love It or Leave It)
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To: griffin
Please. The Ashcanistans knocked down (maybe) a drone and they screamed about it for days. If there had been any casualties they would have been hysterical by now.
70 posted on 09/27/2001 11:27:21 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
US marine Corps F.F.A.S.T. (First Fleet Anti-Terrorist Security) Company special forces was in Pakistan ten hours into September 12th.

They secured two airbases within Pakistan.

Also...from what I am to understand..along with US Delta & Green Beret( no Rangers) and British SAS units operating in Afghanistan is a German unit (Kommando SpezialKraefte).
71 posted on 09/27/2001 11:29:52 PM PDT by VaBthang4 (BrianLCasserly@aol.com)
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To: ambrose
If Chuck is with them, he'll kill Osama with his acting abilities.
72 posted on 09/28/2001 12:21:07 AM PDT by xander
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To: Roebucks
Osama has decided that he does not want to be a martyr and that the tale of 72 virgins waiting in Paradise is just a hoax. If he believed in the tale, he would be ready to take that trip to Paradise.
73 posted on 09/28/2001 12:45:00 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: ambrose
There's gonna be trouble now.... Bring it on RAMBO!!!!!


74 posted on 09/28/2001 1:01:41 AM PDT by enrg
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To: LarryLied
Bush is doing nothing. It is all a con.

Hmmm. Well, Larry, we've had some different opinions in the past but usually yours are reasonable and intelligent [even if wrong :^)] Why do you think so? I am open to, and interested in, your thoughts here.

75 posted on 09/28/2001 3:36:28 AM PDT by RJCogburn
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To: kattracks
Most Americans were already reasonably sure of this military move. Too bad USAToday feels a need to show they were able to figure it out and advise the world.
76 posted on 09/28/2001 3:40:14 AM PDT by not-an-ostrich
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To: kattracks
Just heard about this on CNN.

Why not put chips in the troops, so the media can track them more easily?

The analysis by the CNN talking heads is deplorable.

Loose lips sink ships.

77 posted on 09/28/2001 4:06:10 AM PDT by jos65
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To: jwalsh07
OBL will be found by Afghans or Pakistanis who will be paid for the information.

I think you nailed it. Although, I would not be surpised if there wer Afghans who simply wanted to get rid of these people.

78 posted on 09/28/2001 4:10:32 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter
I can guarandammteeya that the bribe money has been flowing into the chieftains' hands for at least a week. And a king's ransom will go to the chieftain, AND TO HIS BOYS, who gives up bin Laden.

The tribal elders are pious Muslims, but money talks and bullsh*t walks. It has never been in anyone's financial interest to give us this clown and his lieutenants. Now it is. Add to this the fact that bin Laden and his boys are ethnic Arabs, not Pashtuns, and the Afghans have even less of an incentive to keep Usama hidden from view. The resentment towards the Arab interlopers has become palpable in Kabul. Bin Laden and his immediate circle will be betrayed by someone very close to him in the Taliban who is an ethnic Pashtun. Count on it.

The downside? We have to leave the opium poppy crop alone. Or we have to purchase the poppy from the farmers at market prices. Sorry folks, but that's the cost of doing business in Afghanistan.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

79 posted on 09/28/2001 4:20:48 AM PDT by section9
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To: griffin
"...body bags of our SF guys are already coming back..."

Why the hell would you say something like this, even if it was true?
Does this kind of thought make you feel good?
Better double-up on your anti-depressant meds and get a little fresh air.

80 posted on 09/28/2001 4:28:09 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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