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 NATO Troops Kill Taliban Fighter Suspected in Copter CrashPosted on Aug 10, 2011
NATO forces announced Wednesday that they had killed the Taliban member they believe was responsible for shooting down the Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. Navy SEALs and Afghan commandos Aug. 6. Police in the area said that as many as 13 fighters were killed in the airstrike by an F-16 fighter jet, including the unnamed man said to have fired the fatal rocket-propelled grenade. A statement issued by the coalition said that “while it has not been determined if enemy fire was the sole reason for the helicopter crash, it did take fire from several insurgent locations. … ” —BF
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By Octopodian, August 12, 2011 at 5:02 am Link to this comment
Well, that evens things up.
Report thisBy THX 1133, August 12, 2011 at 12:06 am Link to this comment
What a blatant insult to the few intelligent Americans
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For the rest; rah, rah, rah, sis boom bah!
U-S-A; U-S-A; Fuck Yeah!
By SarcastiCanuck, August 11, 2011 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
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This is a very strange story.Did CSI dust the rocks for prints after the RPG was shot?Is there only one Ayubi in Afghanistan?Did the good guys get revenge over the guys wearing the black hats?Do any of the families of the dead G.I.‘s feel any better from this news…..Bizzare
Report thisBy loneagle, August 11, 2011 at 9:30 am Link to this comment
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NATO forces announced Wednesday that they had killed D. B. Cooper in a F-16
Report thismidnight strafing run on a remote cabin in the mountains of Vancouver B. C. Also
killed in the raid was his cat Smooky.
By lasmog, August 11, 2011 at 8:25 am Link to this comment
Hmmm, this story sounds awfully neat and tidy doesn’t it? - Seals killed, then Seal avenged.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, August 11, 2011 at 7:00 am Link to this comment
Anyone old enought to remember the nightly news reporting on Vietnam casualties? 300 VC killed today, 1 US troop wounded, etc, etc. total garbage.
Truth in media is the first thing to go on the road to a fascist state.
Navy SEALs are not sent in to re-inforce lesser units, it is not their mission.
Report thisBy tropicgirl, August 11, 2011 at 4:53 am Link to this comment
I’d rather watch Combat. At least the soldiers were real soldiers, not drug-runners who no one feels sorry for.
Report thisBy TDoff, August 11, 2011 at 4:12 am Link to this comment
It’s anyone’s guess whether the culprit was the ten-year-old-girl carrying the flowers in the wedding procession our troops annihilated, or the intended groom who had a ‘suspicious’ bulge in his pocket where he was carrying the ring box.
But sure as hell, we killed some folks, and hey, maybe one of them was, or was related to, or had a friend who knew the dastard who shot down the helicopter that was flying in to decimate their town. Anything’s possible in a SNAFU like Afghanistan.
Report thisBy thecrow, August 11, 2011 at 3:26 am Link to this comment
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/interior-attack/
Report thisBy johnnyfarout, August 10, 2011 at 8:13 pm Link to this comment
déjà vu de la guerre
Report thisBy grokker, August 10, 2011 at 7:08 pm Link to this comment
All of this “theater” is better than watching old reruns of Combat.
Report thisBy Mike Strong, August 10, 2011 at 6:14 pm Link to this comment
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I am with you on the BS factor. I’m sure they did roll something out and kill someone. But the exact attacker? Their accuracy on kill statements has never been so good, often “definitely killing” this or that person more than once only to find they are still around.
I can just imagine any number of old Perry Mason and similar courtroom-drama scenes in which the eyewitness is fooled into showing that they can’t see across a room, or without glasses or in the dark and so forth. The whole case falls apart. Yet somehow our vaunted military and CIA are able to get it right in the most confused and chaotic situations of battle or from thousands of feet up with only a video camera pointed down from a drone and so forth.
I have to feed everything through filters in the same way we used to read about how citizens of the old Soviet Union read Pravda or Izvetia. Worse, as I look back, I can see more and worse how our government lied to us back then when we thought we (USA) were truthful and only those other governments lied, you know, those “filthy commies.”
We are now the filthy ones, and we are realizing it. And who knows which innocent Afghans paid with their lives for this claim of infallible identification by our very own murderous military?
Report thisBy Big B, August 10, 2011 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment
I call “bullshit” on this fairy tale as well.
First, after years of looking for a dead man, OBL is killed in a surgical strike, hiding in plain site. The same men responsible for the raid are tragically killed in yet another heroic mission. And then the man responsible is (surprise) killed in another raid.
All of this would be considered paraniod delusion, but then I think of poor Oswald, being perp walked to his excecutioner, Jack Ruby. And of course, ruby dies not long after that.
“Gambling going on here at Rick’s? Shocking!”
Report thisBy berniem, August 10, 2011 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
Ya know, I’m finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to believe anything said by our government. As things get worse for this administation, The BS factor raises proportionately. That whole OBL thing still smells fishy. Reminds me of the goings on of another government a good while back; the one that kept saying Stalingrad was in the bag until no one came home on leave anymore. Or maybe that Rommel was a hero who died honorably. I’m really getting tired of being lied to or expected to buy the crap ‘cause, hey, I’m a patriot and all that. When are we going to take to the streets?
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