Elite troops of Navy Seals and its Seal Team 6 has lost 25 men. Urdu newspapers in Pakistan rejoice over the death of the commandos who killed Bin Laden
Around forty soldiers most of them belonging to the feared US Seal 6 team and the rest to another top Afghan commandos were killed while on a mission in central Afghanistan. America is in the mourning while some in its most important and most hated ally Pakistan are celebrating the loss.
I have been able to see two leading Pakistani newspapers since the morning and both have their top headlines about the Navy Seal loss. By the way one of the two papers belong to the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Party and the other is a long and trusted partner for the US government in Pakistan MQM whose boss Altaf Hussain lives in the UK.
A banner headline in Daily Jang, that is very close to MQM said “20 of the sailors killed in Chinook crash took part in Usama killing”. Another headline in a fundamentalist newspaper Jasarat also published from the Pakistani port city of Karachi said, “25 sailors who martyred Usama killed”. A small headline in the same newspaper read, “Afghan Mujahidin (holy Warrior) down a US helicopter.
The Navy Seals are among the most feared commandos not just in the US but anywhere in the world and they were praised for the US incursion and the killing of Usama Bin laden in Pakistani garrison city of Abotabad.
It is but natural for the fundamentalists in Pakistan and anywhere in the world to rejoice the loss of so many men belonging to an elite force that could have conducted similar operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the future.
Now the demand from common citizen in the US to pull out of Iraq will intensify even further. A reader says, “This war is so out of control we should have been out years ago. After 10 years why are we losing more men now? Because we do not know how to effectively fight non uniform, non organized terrorists with our military effectively. Where are the Politicians with common sense to get us out of Afghanistan and stop fighting a never ending war! Make the Afghans fight for themselves!”
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