31 US Occupation Troops Killed in Afghanistan
Al-Manar | August 6, 2011
Thirty-one members of the US occupation special forces were killed when a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.
“This helicopter crashed in Wardak province last night, as a result of which including the crew members, 31 personnel of American Special Forces lost their lives”, a statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said Saturday. […]
The statement said that seven Afghan troops were also killed in the incident.
The crash late Friday represents the biggest death toll in a single incident for international forces in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001.
The helicopter from the NATO-led foreign force has crashed during an anti-Taliban operation in the eastern province of Wardak, southwest of Afghan capital Kabul, a provincial spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, said.
In a written statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the group claimed responsibility for the crash. He said NATO had attacked a house in Sayd Abad where Taliban fighters were gathering on Friday.
The Taliban then fired on NATO and downed the helicopter, killing the crew, Mujahid said.
Earlier before the presidential statement, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was still looking into what had happened.
“An International Security Assistance Force helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan today and recovery operations are under way”, a spokesman for ISAF, the foreign military force in Afghanistan, said.
“ISAF is still in the process of assessing the circumstances to determine the facts of the incident. Reporting indicates there was enemy activity in the area.”
An eyewitness told AFP news agency that the helicopter had crashed as it was trying to take off after landing on the roof of a Taliban commander’s home during a firefight.
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Navy SEAL’s that got Bin Laden die In Afghan attack on NATO chopper. They may have wanted to blow the whistle and spill the beans about the content of the package they were ordered to dispose of into the deep blue sea?
It definitely wasn’t Bin Laden since the man was reported dead about ten years ago.
How many more years will pass before we know the truth about this crash?
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no, what actually took place is that the military lost a dozen or more people when the one helicopter on the May 1, 2011 raid ‘blew up’ and fell from a height of about 1,000 feet AGL, over the compound, rendering the people on board into teentzy weentzy tiny body parts which the eyewitness saw all over the place.
so, the real truth is that something else happened here. First, there IS no such thing as Seal Team Six. Ask Ventura, he should know this. Second, we know that these guys who croaked were Army Rangers and NOT navy seals, as the navy does not language train the seals in PASHTUN and hence, how the hell could they have been heard speaking that dialect by the witness if they were not linguistics trained at the school in Monterrey, CA., where the navy normally does this?
next, a gaggle of Air Farce assholes died in this crash? what the fuck where Air Controllers doing in a helicopter over Afghanistan? Sightseeing? I don’t think so.
in any case, the standard stock CH-47 would have been hard pressed to be toting around that many fully equipped dorks in mountainous, hot, high density altitude terrain (meaning the chopper would have been maybe a tad over max gross weight and above it’s service ceiling due to density altitude issues).
something is wrong with this whole picture.
what I think is that the families of the Army Rangers who croaked on May 1, 2011, put enough pressure on the pricks in the Pornogon to make them finally take the body bags out of freezer trucks parked outside the military morgue there at Dover, and thaw them for burial processing. Three months is too short a time for ‘plausible deniability’ of some kind of withholding of their deaths from their relatives who were demanding the information about their missing since May 1, 2011, loved ones.
so this was either this, or more shit to legitimize the fake raid for Bin Decomposing.
as much as I think WRH has turned ‘shill site’ as of late, I don’t think this applied to the excellent coverage rendered on the whole gaggle of faked photos the jerks in Israeli intelligence and CIA were floating to the public and then denying they created, to legitimize a botched raid that the Pakistani ISI no doubt set them up on.
I want you all to think about this for a second. Nobody in their right fucking mind in the U.S. intelligence services would ‘bite’ on bait to go after a known dead in 2001 Bin Laden under any circumstances. That raid was for someone else. Once it got ‘botched’ and a helicopter blew up and people died, they had to ‘resurrect’ Bin Decomposin and use him as the excuse for this botched raid the ISI no doubt set them up for.
the mere fact the helicopter ‘blew up’ in flight means someone in the ISI probably planted a bomb on the thing, because there was no ground fire up at the chopper which could have resulted in a massive mid air explosion from 1000 feet AGL, with no chance of an auto-rotation and possible salvaging of some of the occupants, albeit it probably would have been one hell of a hard landing, no matter what, even if they had not blown up in mid-air as the eyewitness said happened to that chopper.
so someone has a lot of SPLAINING TO DO there at the Pornogon, first about the non-existent Seal Team Styx as I jokingly call them, and second, why the Air Farce had controllers on that bird up in the high mountains of Afghanistan.
all good questions if there is any legitimacy at all to this, which in my estimation, is extremely doubtful.
this crash happened on May 1, 2011. just got reported formally now, is all.
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