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Obama mourns dead in likely Afghan shoot-down
[Dawn] President Barack B.O.Obama said Saturday that the deaths of Americans in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan are a reminder of the "extraordinary" price the US military is paying in the decade-long Afghan war. Obama's statement did not confirm the number killed or other details of the crash. Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said that the crash killed 31 US special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos. But The News Agency that Dare Not be Named has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs were among those lost in the crash. None of those killed in the crash is believed to have been part of the SEALs mission that killed wanted terrorist the late Osama bin Laden ... who had a brief but splitting headache... mission, but they were from the same unit as the bin Laden team. The troops from SEAL Team Six were flown by a US Army crew, according to AP military sources. One source says the team was thought to include 22 SEALs, three Air Force air controllers, seven Afghan Army troops, a dog and his handler, and a civilian interpreter, plus the helicopter crew. Earlier, a senior administration official said the helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan was apparently shot down by beturbanned goons in the deadliest single incident of the conflict for US forces. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the crash is still being investigated. Posted by: Fred 2011-08-07 |
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