Lots of US soldiers being killed and copters going down in Afghanistan these days.
**US helicopter down in Afghanistan **
The Chinook helicopter went down in the eastern province of Konar while carrying troops, the statement said. **The cause of the crash was not known, nor was the fate of the passengers. A Chinook helicopter can carry up to 54 passengers plus a crew of four. ** The military said the aircraft had been participating in an anti-guerrilla operation. It was the second US Chinook to crash in the country this year.
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PESHAWAR: The Taliban claimed shooting down a US military’s Chinook helicopter and killing all 35 soldiers on board in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon.
The Taliban also claimed killing another seven US soldiers in the same area in Kunar two hours before downing the helicopter. Mulla Mohammad Ismail, a pro-Taliban military commander in Kunar, told The News that 42 US soldiers were killed in two attacks in Shorek Darra in Kunar’s Manogay district.
If true, this would constitute the biggest losses for the US military since its invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. A US military spokesman was quoted as saying that 20 soldiers were killed when the chopper went down.
According to Mulla Ismail, the first incident took place at 2pm when Taliban intercepted and killed seven US soldiers who had been dropped by a helicopter in the Shorek Darra area in Manogay district.
He believed the American soldiers were on a spying mission as they were taking pictures and carried different instruments to perform their job. “Taliban fighters took away their binoculars and other belongings. They also made a film of the fallen soldiers. We would, Inshallah, show it on the world media,” he explained.
Mulla Ismail claimed that Taliban fighters later shot down a US helicopter that brought troops to Shorek Darra to reinforce the American forces and avenge the death of the seven US soldiers in the earlier attack. He said the Taliban brought down the Chinook at 4pm killing 35 soldiers. “The helicopter caught fire after being hit by rockets fired by the Taliban. None on board survived,” he said.
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**US military officials in Afghanistan say 13 bodies have been recovered from the site where one of their Chinook helicopters crashed on Tuesday. Another seven soldiers are unaccounted for, some of them soldiers who were fighting on the ground. **
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we are with you, you brave american soldiers..it is because of you afghan women can now go to school and work without fear of getting shot in the head in soccer stadiums.
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PD, my friend, soemtimes you surprise me. What you wrote up there regarding women going to school and work is so far from the truth.....Having control over Kabul does not equate to Afghanistan.
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Yeah having semi control of kabul is equal to the whole of afghanistan now me not think so, like comparing a pin hole to a black hole and i won't say what kind of holes those yankee right wing nutters are but its pretty obvious!
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Team of U.S. GIs Missing in Afghanistan
U.S. forces desperately scoured rugged Afghan mountains Friday for an American military team missing in the same area where a U.S. helicopter was shot down.
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In one battle in World War II, the Battle of the Bulge, the US had 81,000 casualties, 19,000 of which were dead. The casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan ,while tragic, are not nearly in the numbers that the US has experienced in other wars. Do not think that bad casualties on any given day will change our national resolve.
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Beirut, Somalia, how are those working out for you? Shining successes for the Muslim world? Those were quagmires and still are. Glad we got out of those. Sending in a couple of hundred troops is always a waste. Vietnam was a political failure, not a military one.
