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Loss of life is sad but there is clear distinction here, Pakistan is not an occupying/invading force in Pakistan itself.
Right, Pakistan is just a terror hub who allows the worlds most wanted terrorist to operate in it's military's backyard.
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in total 38 terrorists died, 31 of them american and 7 other international terrorists. good news to start ramadan.
in other news 28 NATO fuel tankers were destroyed.
This is the street of Pakistan.
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Right, Pakistan is just a terror hub who allows the worlds most wanted terrorist to operate in it's military's backyard.
Take your bitterness out on something else, the incident took place in US military's ass where it is supposed to have full control after 10 fking years, all the chest thumping, all the high tech equipment is now down the drain.
This is the street of Pakistan.
and the relationship to militarymen's death is??
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Right, Pakistan is just a terror hub who allows the worlds most wanted terrorist to operate in it's military's backyard.
Captain summed it quite well, what's American achievement in afghanistan after 10 years? Nothing, this incident is evidence of that! it's interesting now the Americans are dying to cut deals with the same people they used to call their enemies.
As far as Pakistan being a hub of terrorism is concerned, when Pakistan stared operations on it's borders Americans vacated their posts in eastern Afghanistan to facilitate anti Pakistan elements there, it seems that the same people have bitten them. So why cry now???
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I can smell something burning, Oh wait its American ass on a chinook.. Shame on you to call “moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers” terrorist.
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@ NOMICA Sure there's a war going on
While siding with the US is seen as anti Islam - anti Pakistan - anti ghairat
The question is - if you side with the Taliban in Afghanistan - does that mean you side with the TTP as well?
If you don't side with the TTP but you do side with the Taliban in Afghanistan - then are you hoping that the Afghani Taliban (in case they are successful against the US) will not help the TTP to instigate more violence in Pakistan?
If you think the Aghan Talib will help the Pakistani Talib - then you should be siding with the US - as bitter a pill as that may be to swallow.
I don't know who to side with............... for all i care.....before the americans came into the region.......our lives were much better than now.......
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I don't know who to side with............... for all i care.....before the americans came into the region.......our lives were much better than now.......
It was going to happen eventually. Afghanistan was, and is, just a powder keg waiting to explode.
No point in dwelling on the past now.
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This is the street of Pakistan.
what
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Some information about the navy seals…
Navy Seals
Updated: May 5, 2011
There were 79 people on the assault team that killed Osama bin Laden, but in the end, the success of the mission turned on some two dozen men who landed inside the Qaeda leader’s compound, made their way to his bedroom and shot him at close range — all while knowing that the president of the United States was keeping watch from Washington.
The men, hailed as heroes across the country, remained anonymous. They were members of what is unofficially called Seal Team 6, a unit so secretive that the White House and the Defense Department do not directly acknowledge its existence. Its members have hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, fought in some of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and shot three Somali pirates dead on a bobbing lifeboat during the rescue of an American hostage in 2009.
Inside the Navy, there are regular unclassified Seal members, organized into Teams 1 to 5 and 7 to 10. Then there is Seal Team 6, the elite of the elite, or, as Mr. Roberti put it, “the all-star team.”
Former Seal members said that the unit — officially renamed the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or Devgru — was chosen for the bloody Bin Laden raid, the most high-profile operation in the history of the Seals, because of its skills in using lethal force intelligently in complex, ambiguous conditions.
All Seal members face years of brutal preparation, including a notorious six months of basic underwater demolition training in Coronado, Calif. **During “hell week,” recruits get a total of four hours of sleep during five and a half days of nonstop running, swimming in the cold surf and rolling in mud. About 80 percent of the candidates do not make it; at least one has died. ****For those who succeed, more training and then deployments follow. After several years on regular Seal teams, Team 6 candidates must learn to parachute from 30,000 feet with oxygen masks and gain control of a hijacked cruise liner at sea. Of those Seal members, about half make it. **Seals — the term stands for Sea-Air-Land teams — were created by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a way to expand unconventional warfare.
Seal Team 6 came later as a reaction to the botched mission to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, when the Pentagon saw the need for what became today’s Special Operations Command, with a special Navy unit focused on counterterrorism.
Seal Team 6 has historically specialized in war on the seas, but in the decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it has increasingly fought on land in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Its size is classified, but Team 6 is thought to have doubled to nearly 300 since then. Over all, there are now about 3,000 active-duty Seal members, split between odd-numbered teams in Coronado and even-numbered teams in Virginia Beach.
Team 6, which is based in an area separate from all the others, at the Dam Neck Annex of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, has many members in their mid-30s, a decade or more older than the 20-year-olds who populate the military.
The officer who designed and oversaw the Bin Laden raid, Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, is a Seal member who has been chosen to take over leadership of the military’s Special Operations Command from Adm. Eric T. Olson, also a Seal member. Two days after the Bin Laden raid, the Pentagon announced that Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward Jr., another Seal member, would become deputy commander of United States Central Command, making him the second-highest-ranking American officer for the Middle East.
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This is what I thought, taleban have avenged OBL…
http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/08/us-helicopter-shot-down-in-taliban-trap-afghan-official.html
US helicopter shot down in Taliban trap: Afghan official
](http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/08/us-helicopter-shot-down-in-taliban-trap-afghan-official.html)
KABUL: A helicopter which crashed killing 30 US troops in Afghanistan was shot down after the Taliban laid a trap to lure US forces into the area, an Afghan government official said Monday.
“Now it’s confirmed that the helicopter was shot down and it was a trap that was set by a Taliban commander,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
**The official said the commander lured US forces to the scene by telling them there was a Taliban meeting taking place there.
The official said that President Hamid Karzai’s US-backed government “thinks this was a retaliation attack for the killing of Osama Bin Laden.”** The Taliban did not make such an assertion when they claimed responsibility for the attack.
**Citing intelligence “gathered from the area,” the official blamed Qari Tahir, a Taliban commander, for masterminding the attack. He alleged that four Pakistani nationals helped Tahir carry out the strike.
He said the intelligence also showed that the Chinook helicopter was brought down by multiple shots including “modern weapons” without giving further details.**
The helicopter was attacked from either side of a valley, the only route to the Taliban-dominated Sayd Abad district in Wardak province where the attack happened late Friday, the official said.
“The Taliban knew which route the helicopter would take,” he added.
“That’s the only route, so they took position on the either side of the valley on mountains and as the helicopter approached, they attacked it with rockets and other modern weapons. It was brought down by multiple shots,” he said.
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please save the joke commentaries^ for fox news.
simple fact which is hard to swallow: taliban were in firefight with us troops, they were losing, the backup troops came in and were shot down. win for taliban, loss for american terrorists. end the day.
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^ the report was quoting some Afghan intelligence official and I can assure you he will be more knowledgeable about the matter than you or me. I dont think a sophisticated helicopter could have been brought down without proper planning.
Consider this a conspiracy theory, what could be ISI's role in this? After all they were constantly being humiliated by the Americans post May2? Have they tried to avenge that humiliation?
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Dear Readers,
Thirty one US and Afghan special forces soldiers lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last weekend and an investigation to determine the cause of the crash is underway. As the investigation unfolds the facts of the case will reveal details about the downing of the helicopter and subsequent loss of life. What we do know so far is that the helicopter did take enemy fire. We are not yet certain what kind of enemy munitions were used, nor the exact circumstances of the crash.
There are some two hundred special operations soldiers in Seal Team Six. No members of Seal Team Six who conducted the operation that killed Usama Bin Laden were part of last weekend’s mission and, subsequently, none were lost in this tragic incident.
CDR Bill Speaks
DET-United States Central Command
www.centcom.mil
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alhamdulilah may allah(swt) destroy more American troops and humiliate you even more.
keep on throwing your billions into the afghan money pit it will be the end of you!
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The good news is, and the perfect news for Ramadan I might add, is that some of those criminal Taliban dogs who brought down the helicopter, were later killed themselves. Alhamdulilah, allah (SWT) is just...
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They were not killed they were martyred American were killed and sent to hell forever and American Power will be buried in Afghanistan very soon:biggthumb:
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eehhmmm… Doc u were bystanding/watching/listening when they got the order from Allah SWT to go to Hell ???
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eehhmmm.... Doc u were bystanding/watching/listening when they got the order from Allah SWT to go to Hell ????
where do you think the enemies of the muslims end up?
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where do you think the enemies of the muslims end up?
U tell me
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You believe every thing that Amreekan media says! yeah sure the one who destroyed the chinook was going round with a red flag yelling I did it I did it and thats how yanks know who did it. What yanks will do to feel good is amazing!