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| Team of U.S. GIs Missing in Afghanistan |
| 2005-07-01 |
| EFL A small team of U.S. soldiers was still missing Friday in the same mountains in eastern Afghanistan where a special forces helicopter was shot down earlier this week, and U.S. forces are using "every available asset" to find them, a U.S. military spokesman said. The MH-47 Chinook helicopter — with 16 people on board who all died in the crash — had gone into the mountains Tuesday to "extract the soldiers." The team on the ground has been missing since the chopper was downed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara said. A purported Taliban spokesman, Mullah Latif Hakimi, meanwhile, claimed the rebels had captured a U.S. soldier in the area, near the town of Asadabad, close to the Pakistani border. "One high-ranking American has been captured in fighting in the same area as the helicopter went down," he told The Associated Press. "I won't give you any more details now." Reacting to the claim, O'Hara said, "We have no proof or evidence indicating anything other than the soldiers are missing." I assume a 4-8 man recon team was spotted by a much larger Pakistani/Taliban group. Let's hope they were able to evade and the claim of a captive is false. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #11 God bless bless them and their families. |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-07-01 15:47 |
| #10 I know our Indian friends are into indiginous tank production, but perhaps we can help them out with some of the warehoused M1A1s. They could up grade them to their specifications and then design an analog buildable to the region. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-01 14:45 |
| #9 Hey, I went to Cambodia once. Never forget it, it was Christmas Eve... |
| Posted by: JF Kerry 2005-07-01 13:30 |
| #8 ...close to the Pakistani border Might be time to tell Perv we wanna go sightseeing. Whether he likes it or not. No Cambodias in this war. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-01 12:07 |
| #7 I find it very hard to believe that a Seal team member was taken hostage. More than likley I would say that maybe they were hit hard and thier is a lone or small goup of survivors missing communications that the Taly's are trying to box up before we get in to extract. I would say that if they really had a US troop hostage he would be live on TV beat half to death and who know what else front page on every news and TV across the world today yesterday and tommorrow. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-07-01 12:05 |
| #6 Guys, if you only knew the resources being directed to get the OP/LP team out of there... You'd be amazed. If nothing else, 9/11 has brought at least part of the Ranger Creed across to parts of the intelligence community: Never shall I fail my comrades. We are busting ass on this one. Guaranteed. Time for me to drive back to the SCIF for a meeting. Job 1. We know what it is. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-07-01 12:00 |
| #5 Also, go read former Seal Froggy at http://froggyruminations.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to Thursday update... Might be wise for the Taliban to just surrender. These guys have ways of taking care of their own. Flying my flag for them this weekend. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2005-07-01 10:15 |
| #4 Sounds like very bad luck. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-01 10:10 |
| #3 The Army Times is reporting that it is a 4 man recon team from SEAL Team 10 that is missing. Marines have established blocking positions around the area to prevent escape or reinforcement and Army Rangers have secured the crash site and recovered the crash victims. |
| Posted by: TomC 2005-07-01 10:00 |
| #2 I Can't help but wonder if this is the team that those soldiers in the Chinook were rushing to help. If this is the case, not only do we need to consider a new strategy, but look into the possibility that someone leaked the soldiers whereabouts to Al-Q. We don't just suddely loose some of the best soldiers in our country has like this. |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-07-01 09:13 |
| #1 I'm sure the enemy will observe the 'Geneva Convention' in the treatment of any prisoners. Time for blowback on the mouths that roared for the past months on Gitmo. If they're not on it like a flea on a dog or try the 'well you deserve it' line, they're history. |
| Posted by: Cravish Angomons3644 2005-07-01 08:59 |