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Navy SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) Die In Helicopter Crash, Aug. 6 2011
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by NowPublic Staff | August 6, 2011 at 09:02 am
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Twenty members of Navy SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU), The Team That Killed Osama bin Laden, Died in a Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011
There are reports that 20 of the people who died in the August 6, 2011 Afghanistan helicopter crash were members of Navy SEAL Team Six, the unit that was involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
The Navy SEALS were being flown by members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. In total, 31 Americans and seven Afghan commandos were killed in the helicopter crash. The Afghanistan helicopter crash is the biggest American loss of life since US military operations began in the country.
The helicopter is believed to have been struck by a rocket-propelled grenade as it traveled near the Tangi Valley of Wardak Province west of Kabul. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash.
Navy SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) is the elite fighting unit that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011 in a mansion in Abbottabad.
Here is some background on Navy SEAL Team Six.
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Truth For A Change (not verified)at 09:51 on August 6th, 2011
Does this story sound like complete bullcrap to you? At the very time of the downgrade of the credit rating, time to break out the disinformation machine and get people waving flags again.
at 11:57 on August 6th, 2011
Just a hunch, I believe someone in the Afghanistan government, or an Afghan who was on that helicopter, knew 'The Team That Killed Osama bin Laden' special forces would also on it_tipping off someone about it.
A seriously tragic development for America and the Navy Seals !
at 12:52 on August 6th, 2011
I can't help but think they'd have been chomping at the bit to engineer such a revenge strike, and it would be hard to keep a lid on their daily operations because we do so many things with afghani forces we want to take our place when we leave.
It makes more sense than stupid theories about us doing it to ourselves to drum up support for the war in the wake of our troubles at home. That guy probably thinks the WTC was "dustified" too. Maybe by reptilians?
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phantomlimb (not verified)at 20:39 on August 22nd, 2011
very interesting... or maybe its all bullshit and they were "killed in the crash" and then given new aliases to live a "normal" life. Hmmm seems like there would be repercussions to being apart of one of the biggest "take downs" in military history. Despite the fact they are dealing with what seems uneducated hole dwellers... the rivals are still born and bred for violence and hatred towards western lifestyle. They would be forever targets! Call it hokum or just food thought but there is something more at play here. Ninja Vanish...aannnnd !
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Chris Schmitt (not verified)at 08:31 on September 19th, 2011
Hmmm, we go in and kill OBL with a secret special Ops team that is not supposed to exist. Then we dispose of the body of the guy that we have been spending billions and billions of OUR dollars to find (before anyone gets even a glimpse of him) in a manor consistant with Islam (did we dump Saddam at sea?). Then, the only guys who have first hand knowledge the OBL "raid" are shot down and killed in Afghanistan? I say bullshit!!!! Stop killing our soldiers and innocent people for political/economic reasons!!! And stop spending our tax dollars on these bullshit wars!!!