BBC: US dead found after Afghan crash

[pdurod1]

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.

Edit: URL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4636461.stm

[maddezmom]

1. 20 more dead soldiers and * is on CNN smirking about his G-8 trip

:mad:

[benburch]

2. Money matters to *, not lives.

The only human beings he has ever really cared about were baseball players.

[Cha]

7. The USA as a Country is shamed

to have such a sham representing them in a toilet bowl cleaning contest much less as the president(sic)of the United States Of America.

I'm ashamed for my Country but not for myself..because I worked diligently to keep the filthy son-of-a-BIATCH out of D.C.

[Miss Chybil]

3. I hope they find the others and they've not be captured by the Taliban.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had finished that job?

[maddezmom]

8. I have a bad feeling

memories of POW's

[Miss Chybil]

18. Me, too. I'm getting sick thinking about it. nt

[rodeodance]

19. they could very well be POW's but would think the Tal. would tell us by no

[dmkinsey]

4. Replay of Mujahadeen v. USSR

US provided Stingers to "Freedom Fighters" which enabled them to shoot down Soviet helicopter gunships.
Without the ability to fly their superior firepower vehicles the Soviets eventually left the country.

If the Taliban bring down a couple more of our helicopters our appetite for the conflict will expire.

[maddezmom]

5. LT. Cindy Moore will not confirm BBC report

The BBC said officials said there was still hope that some of those unaccounted for were alive, but the report quoted North as saying that they may also have been captured by insurgents.

A U.S. military spokeswoman Kabul, Lieutenant Cindy Moore, said she could not confirm the BBC report. "I don't know where they are getting that information," she said. I don't have what they are saying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050630/ts_nm/afghan_usa_bodies_dc_1;_

[pdurod1]

9. Bizarre...

Seems like the Brits, keep getting it right lately: Galloway, DSM papers, etc,... CNN is now top billing "the fastest growing US city."

[maddezmom]

6. CNN reporting Pentagon changes the number back to 16

[Rainscents]

11. I tell you, I don't believe anything comes out of Pentagon.

These ass holes are nothing but liar! :mad:

[Rose Siding]

17. Reuters, quoting a "report", has it at 20- 13 found, 7 missing

feared captured

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-30T154528Z_01_N30547588_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-DC.XML

[maddezmom]

10. confirmed by the Afghan Army commander..Gen. Aminullah Patyani

General Aminullah Patyani, the Afghan army commander for the east of the country, told Reuters "a few bodies" had been found at the site in the Dar-e-Paich area about 30 km (19 miles) northwest of Asadabad, but he did not know how many.

Patyani said the search operation was still going on but he did not have any information about any U.S. troops being captured by insurgents.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050630/ts_nm/afghan_usa_bodies_dc_2;_

[stopbush]

12. For some reason, I doubt we'll be seeing "Chinook Down"

on the big screen any time soon...or any time at all, for that matter.

Now, if Gore or Kerry was president...

[lebkuchen]

13. Here`s Stars and Stripes input, admitting the probability of enemy fire

for a change, rather than the weather, as had been last April`s excuse only a handful of hours after that crash.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30059

Chinook that crashed in Afghanistan likely brought down by enemy fire

A U.S. special operations helicopter that crashed late Tuesday while transporting troops to a firefight in eastern Afghanistan may have been brought down by enemy fire, officials said Wednesday.

There was no immediate word on the fate of the 17 crewmembers and troops on board the Chinook, which crashed in an area west of Asadabad, a rugged town along Afghanistan’s mountainous border with Pakistan.

“Initial reports indicate the crash may have been caused by hostile fire,” Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara, a Combined Joint Task Force-76 spokesman, said Wednesday. “Coalition and Afghan National Army forces quickly moved into position around the crash to block any enemy movement toward or away from the site.”

Rescue operations were hampered by the rugged terrain of the crash site — reachable only by foot — and bad weather, officials said.

[Doctor_J]

14. But according to Limpballs, we WON Afghanistan

and that's why the media never mention it. What a lying, cowardly piece of shit that man is.

[lectrobyte]

15. Blowback is a bitch

and to paraphrase Rowdy Roddy, and she's back in heat.

[henslee]

16. Taking a bullet for Hallitburton, Dithers and smithers. What a way to go.