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NATO copter downed; Navy SEALs among the 30 U.S. dead

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The irony in all of this is incredible. The same Navy Seals Team (Team 6) that carried out the operation to assassinate OBL now gets attacked in Afghanistan in a major strike by the Afghan Taliban, with deadly results.

Taliban, those guys are hardcore...

None of those who participated in the Bin Laden raid were on the flight...

RIP to the dead, vengeance on the Taliban.
 
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MULLEN: "It's also important that we respect the process of notifying family members, no matter how long that takes. We ought to remember that the troops we lose in this war aren't just statistics or numbers on a wall. They were parents and siblings, and someone's child. We need to make sure we do all we can to comfort and support the families whose lives are now forever changed."

Switch 'troops' to mean 'innocent civilians/Pakistani soldiers etc.' killed in drones strikes and botched bombings/raids.

No such respect, from the US, to be seen there ....
 
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Alhamdulillah ... More such incidences should happen ...

Like after 6 nuke laden cruises "Accidentally" flew from Minot Airbase to Barksdale, 7-8 of crew members who worked on either of that base died in "ACCIDENTS" ... similarly, if news posted above is true that these 31 who died took part in so-called OBL raid, & since that was a staged-play so all those who had inside knowledge had to be "eliminated", then it was definitely CIA or private contractors who simply wiped the all those front-line crew who had insider information...


& then appearance of Obama on TV especially on this incidence was necessary to add credibility to story that insurgents shot-down that plane, NOT the zionist-controlled CIA/Contractors ...


Calm down or you might get banned soon.
 
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Switch 'troops' to mean 'innocent civilians/Pakistani soldiers etc.' killed in drones strikes and botched bombings/raids.

No such respect, from the US, to be seen there ....

The americans have little respect for any human life especially muslims. Im sorry but its been a long time coming america is losing more than the lifes of these soldiers. They are losing our patience and respect.
 
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Associated Press sources are reporting a statistically impossible tragedy for U.S. forces in Afghanistan– that of the 38 NATO forces killed in a helicopter crash Friday night, “more than 20″ were members of SEAL Team 6, the covert unit that took credit for killing Osama bin Laden in May.

Mainstream sources are seizing upon claims that the Taliban took credit for downing the helicopter, but that means nothing. Media instantly ran reports that al Qaeda was responsible for the bombing & shootings in Norway; moreover, anyone on a message board can make such claims.

Instead, Alex Jones predicted shortly after the raid on bin Laden’s compound that SEALs would soon be reported dead in a helicopter crash or staged incident following multiple reports from military sources who’ve proved accurate in the past, including on-air callers, that SEALs did indeed die during the raid. Official stories admitted after-the-fact that a helicopter went down during the mission, but claimed there were no deaths of U.S. forces.

Below is Alex’s report on the breaking news of SEAL Team 6′s official demise:


Infowars is on the record reporting that members of Seal Team 6 died in the so called OBL raid. The government admits that a super secret helicopter did crash during the OBL raid but says no one died, our intel is different. We predicted that the spin doctors would stage a crash or when a real crash took place that they would say the SEALs died then. This is a old trick that governments all over the world have been caught pulling in the past. Some speculate that Obama had the team killed to cover up what really happened; however our intel does not point that way. The Pentagon may have blown the helicopter up on the ground on the night of the raid and we cover that in the above video. Lastly the globalist MSM is reporting that terrorist have taken credit but that is notoriously filled with disinfo, like in the Norway attack when a fake terrorist group took credit and the media ran with it.

According to the sources, military personnel internally admit to the SEAL deaths, however it was not clear whether it had been the result of an accidental crash, from a firefight with Pakistani military forces stationed only a short distance from the compound, or whether, as Pakistani eyewitnesses indicated (below), the helicopter exploded after covert forces entered.

Whatever the true story, one thing is clear: dead men tell no tales. The inconvenient truth is that governments throughout history have disposed of heroes, covert troops and special forces to keep the real story from coming out. Helicopter and plane crashes have been one of the favorite methods for tying up these loose ends.

Abbottabad residents told CCTV reporters they don’t believe Osama bin Laden was ever at this compund and that the operation was a ‘hoax’. Pakistan’s anti-terrorist squad also could not confirm the killing, according to reports.


Pakistani eyewitnesses to the Abbottabad raid on Osama’s reputed compound reported that a U.S. helicopter exploded and that Americans died, despite the fact that mainstream media reports claimed no one died in the raid. The crash was reported but remains little explained.

As Dr. Paul Craig Roberts presciently dredged up again only yesterday:

In the immediate aftermath of bin Laden’s alleged murder by the SEALs, Pakistani TV interviewed the next door neighbor to bin Laden’s alleged compound. Someone supplied the video with an English translation running at the bottom of the video. According to the translation, the next door neighbor, Mr. Bashir, said that he watched the entire operation from the roof of his house. There were 3 helicopters. Only 1 landed. About a dozen men got out and entered the house. They shortly returned and boarded the helicopter. When the helicopter lifted off it exploded, killing all aboard. Mr. Bashir reports seeing bodies and pieces of bodies all over.

The US government acknowledges that it lost a helicopter, but claims no one was hurt. Obviously, as there were no further landings, if everyone was killed as Mr. Bashir reports, there was no body to be dumped into the ocean.

SEAL Team 6 was formally dissolved in 1987, becoming the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, with its command structure transferred to Joint Special Operations Command. The unit’s true nature and even numbers are unknown.

This May 17 Navy Times article would revise the official account of events, admitting to the crash incident:

Aboard two Black Hawk helicopters were 23 SEALs, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo. Nineteen SEALs would enter the compound, and three of them would find bin Laden, one official said, providing the exact numbers for the first time.

Aboard the Chinooks were two dozen more SEALs, as backup.

[...] The plan unraveled as the first helicopter tried to hover over the compound. The Black Hawk skittered around uncontrollably in the heat-thinned air, forcing the pilot to land. As he did, the tail and rotor got caught on one of the compound’s 12-foot walls. The pilot quickly buried the aircraft’s nose in the dirt to keep it from tipping over, and the SEALs clambered out into an outer courtyard.

[...] It took approximately 15 minutes to reach bin Laden, one official said. The next 23 or so were spent blowing up the broken chopper, after rounding up nine women and 18 children to get them out of range of the blast.

» Deaths of SEAL Team 6 Exposed Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
 
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They are saying on CNN these seals were part of the same team that took out OBL

sorry if posted already
 
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By Kevin Sieff and Greg Jaffe, Published: August 6

KABUL — A NATO helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 U.S. service members, including about 20 SEALs from the elite SEAL Team 6 counterrorism unit that carried out the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, the coalition said.

The crash, which was the deadliest incident for the coalition in the nearly 10-year-old war, also killed seven Afghan commandos and a civilian interpreter, NATO said, adding that an investigation was underway.

A U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter said the aircraft was most likely brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade. The Taliban asserted responsibility for the crash, which occurred in Wardak province, just west of the capital, Kabul.

American and Afghan officials said that the Chinook aircraft had been operating in an area of heavy insurgent activity. A senior U.S. official said that none of the 20 SEALs who died in the crash had participated in the May raid to kill bin Laden, adding that the downed Chinook was piloted by a regular Army crew.

The official said that the loss of the SEALs, while tragic, would not have a major impact on U.S. counterterrorism operations.

“Anytime you lose SEALs it has a tactical impact, but there will be no strategic change,” the official said. “Nothing has changed in our ability to hunt down and kill the Taliban and al-Qaeda.”

SEAL Team 6, known formally as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, consists of about 250 to 300 operators. A former U.S. official who has worked closely with Special Operations forces said the losses would hurt more on “an emotional than an operational level.” The bigger worry voiced by senior U.S. officials was the impact of the loss on the American public’s psyche and support for the increasingly unpopular conflict.

Saturday’s crash comes during a surge of violence across large swaths of Afghanistan, particularly in the east, which has become a flash point in the conflict as American troops prepare for a phased withdrawal from the country. The incident threatened to shake confidence in NATO’s air power — a key asset in the war and a important element of combat support offered to Afghans, who lack an air force of their own.

Residents of Sayedabad district in Wardak who were awake for an early morning Ramadan prayer reported hearing a rocket-propelled grenade being fired and then a loud explosion. Flames lit the night sky, they said.

“Then American forces began searching houses and blocked the roads of the village,” said Sana Gal, 35, a resident of Tangi, a village a few hundred yards from the crash site.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said an insurgent shot down the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade after the conclusion of a firefight in which eight Taliban fighters were killed.

The U.S. official who described the downing of the helicopter concurred with that account, saying the aircraft had been on a mission to kill or capture two high-level insurgents known for organizing devastating roadside bomb attacks on American convoys along the volatile road south of Kabul called Highway One. They arrived in the Tangi Valley, in a remote part of Wardak province, about 2 a.m. on Saturday, following a months-long intelligence-gathering effort.
Just as the helicopter hovered near the target location, an insurgent fired what the official said was likely a rocket-propelled grenade at the Chinook, which went down, killing all of the passengers.

Troops from a second helicopter managed to land safely in the rural location, engaging the insurgents in a firefight, killing about eight of them, the official said. The men then secured the site, letting the wreckage burn, attempting to recover the bodies of the Americans and the Afghans, as well as the remnants of the Chinook. Several hours later, they left the scene, the charred Chinook slung below the undamaged helicopter as it flew away.

Deadly helicopter crashes have not been especially common in Afghanistan, but despite their infrequency, they constitute some of the bloodiest incidents in the war’s history. Before Saturday’s crash, 96 coalition troops had been killed in eight separate crashes since 2005 — products of both mechanical problems and insurgent attacks.

Chinook helicopters are vulnerable to attack from rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns when taking off and landing, particularly in mountainous terrain, because they are big targets that fly low to the ground. In the most dangerous areas, the U.S. military will typically fly Chinooks only at night and only when there is little or no illumination from the moon. This has long been true in restive and mountainous areas throughout eastern Afghanistan and has at times made it challenging to resupply units.

The Chinooks have not been the only U.S. helicopters involved in fatal crashes in Afghanistan. In one of the deadliest incidents in recent years, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Zabul province last September, killing nine American service members.

The deadliest helicopter crash involving U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan occurred in June 2005, when insurgents shot down a Chinook in Konar province, near the Korengal Valley. Sixteen U.S. 16 troops, most of them Army Rangers, died. The Rangers were flying into the valley to rescue a small team of Navy SEALs that had come under fire.

That incident led U.S. forces to set up outposts in the Korengal, a remote valley that was a hotbed of insurgent activity. From 2006 to 2010 the valley was one of the most violent spots in Afghanistan for U.S. troops; more than 50 Americans were killed there. In the spring of 2010, Americans pulled out of the valley.

The remote Tangi Valley, which sits near the border between Wardak and Logar provinces, has long been a problem area for U.S. troops and the Afghan government. U.S. forces had for years kept a small presence in those provinces, but in 2009 surged troops into the area.

The insurgency in Wardak and Logar is generally thought to be affiliated with the Haqqani network.

U.S. forces had wanted to make Paktika and Khost provinces their main focus in the east this fighting season. But the increased violence in Wardak and Logar, and their proximity to Kabul, forced the Americans to change plans. Since then, Wardak and Logar have been the main focus of U.S. forces in the east.
Local Afghan officials were quick to point out Saturday that insurgent activity in the volatile Tangi Valley, where the latest helicopter crash occurred, has spiked in recent months, since some NATO troops withdrew from a remote base in the area.

“The Americans left because they were getting casualties with each operation . . . and since then, the insurgents have increased their activity,” said Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the Wardak governor.

All foreign combat forces are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and some withdrawals have already begun, coinciding with the launch of a security transition in seven largely peaceful cities and provinces. But while Afghan forces have assumed formal control of those areas, some of the country’s more volatile regions have shown little sign of progress, leaving many Afghans and Americans wary of the prospects for the war’s endgame.

The crash Saturday brings the total number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan in 2011 to 374, according to the icasualties.org Web site. Two-thirds of them have been American, including 28 Special Forces soldiers.

In a statement, President Obama expressed his condolences to the families and loved ones of those who were killed, saying their deaths were a “reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan.”

“We will draw inspiration from their lives, and continue the work of securing our country and standing up for the values that they embodied,” he said. “We also mourn the Afghans who died alongside our troops in pursuit of a more peaceful and hopeful future for their country.”

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also issued a statement, saying he was “deeply saddened by the loss of many outstanding Americans in uniform and of their Afghan counterparts.” Their courage, he said, was exemplary.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said in a statement, “The president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has expressed his condolences to the U.S. President Barack Obama and to the families of the victims.”

Jaffe reported from Washington. Special correspondents Sayed Salahuddin and Javed Hamdard in Kabul and staff writer Jason Ukman and staff researcher Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.
20 Navy SEALs among 30 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan as NATO helicopter is shot down - The Washington Post
 
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lol What a joke,
20 SEALs from the elite SEAL Team 6 counterrorism unit that carried out the mission to kill Osama bin Laden

lol Wow, Talibans must to happy about this
SEALs are higly trained people.
 
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lol What a joke,
20 SEALs from the elite SEAL Team 6 counterrorism unit that carried out the mission to kill Osama bin Laden

lol Wow, Talibans must to happy about this
SEALs are higly trained people.

Yeah, it`s always hilarious to hear brave men lose their lives by terrorists.
No matter how trained you are, you explode like and die like everyone else when hit by a RPG.
 
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None of those who participated in the Bin Laden raid were on the flight...

RIP to the dead, vengeance on the Taliban.

It is now confirmed from american source that some (about 20 out of 31) of the dead were those who participated in osama raid
 
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