I don’t know if you are interested in this or not but got this from a email today.
more after the fold
here is a list by the DoD of dead in Afghan helio downed this past week.
Subject: DoD Identifies Army and Navy Casualties
>
>
> > NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of
> Defense
> >
> > No. 671-05
> > IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> > Jul 02, 2005
> > Media Contact: (703)697-5131
> > Public/Industry Contact: (703)428-0711
> >
> > DoD Identifies Army and Navy Casualties
> >
> >
> > The Department of Defense announced today the
> death of eight soldiers and
> eight
> > sailors who were supporting Operation Enduring
> Freedom.
> >
> > Soldiers killed were:
> >
> > SSgt. Shamus O. Goare, 29, of
> Danville, Ohio.
> > Chief Warrant Officer Corey J.
> Goodnature, 35, of Clarks
> Grove, Minn.
> > Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby, 21, of Pompano
> Beach, Fla.
> > Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles, 33,
> of Shelbyville, Ind.
> > MSgt James W. Ponder III, 36, of
> Franklin, Tenn.
> > Maj. Stephen C. Reich, 34, of
> Washington Depot, Conn.
> > Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell, 31,
> of Stafford, Va.
> > Chief Warrant Officer Chris J.
> Scherkenbach, 40, of
> Jacksonville, Fla.
> > All of these soldiers were assigned to the Army’s
> 160th Special Operations
> Aviation
> > Regiment (Airborne), Hunter Army Air Field, Ga.
> >
> > Sailors killed were:
> >
> > Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan, 36, of New
> Orleans, La.
> > Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy, 36, of
> Exeter, N.H.
> > Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen, 33, of San Diego,
> Calif.
> > Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas, 33, of
> Corbett, Ore.
> > Lt. Michael M. McGreevy, Jr., 30, of Portville,
> N.Y.
> > Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh, 28, of
> Deerfield Beach, Fla.
> > Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor, 30, of
> Midway, W.Va.
> > Healy, Patton and Suh were assigned to SEAL
> Delivery Vehicle Team One,
> Pearl
> > Harbor, Hawaii.
> >
> > Fontan, Kristensen, Lucas, McGreevy and Taylor
> were assigned to SEAL Team
> Ten,
> > Virginia Beach, Va.
> >
> > All 16 were killed while conducting combat
> operations when the MH-47
> helicopter
> > that they were aboard crashed in the vicinity of
> Asadabad, Afghanistan in
> Kumar
> > Province on June 28.
> >
> > For further information related to the Army
> personnel listed in this
> release,
> > contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.
> >
> > For further information related to the Navy
> personnel listed in this
> release,
> > contact Naval Special Warfare Command Public
> Affairs at (619) 437-5133.
> >
so very sad to look at, IMHO
This is my very first take at posting a diary. Please forgive me for the awkwardness
of it. I just wanted to cringe at the thought of these names in a country that is to be a secure country according to dubya and dickie boy. NO need for giving any credits to me…this is just FYI article. Say prayers for their loved ones and extended families and friends.
Good first diary-very important to remember what is going on in Afghanistan and what is happening to our troops and all the civilians there.
Thank you very much. I read the names of the dead and just sit and think of them and what their lives were all about. What was in their minds and hearts and souls upon their demise. What is happening to their family and friends. I just sit and wonder. Too and so very sad to have lives lost over anything but to think they might have been lured or anything like that is beyond what my heart wants to believe. Now my question is where is the team of which they were to help out?
Brenda, this is very important. Thank you for posting this.
You might like to check the Honolulu Advertiser. Several of the SEALs were stationed there, and the Advertiser has done a great job covering their stories.
I’m also very, very worried about the special forces recon team. One was rescued, but where are the other three? The one who was rescued was injured, the news report said.
Why wasn’t he still with his team?
Thanks, Brenda.
exactly . my very question.
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PESHAWAR – August 28, 2002 — Al-Qaeda, “the base”, is now extinct. Al-Qaeda has a brand new name: Fath-e-Islam (Victory of Islam). And Fath-e-Islam’s leader, none other than Osama bin Laden, is very much alive. Osama has returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan, more precisely in Kunar province.
Key players in the ultra-complex Pakistan-Afghanistan game had been saying that since the fall of Kabul in November 2001 that “the last battle” in this ongoing war would be in Kunar. The Taliban and the rebranded al-Qaeda have full tribal support in Kunar – where everybody seems to know someone who died from the American bombing of Afghanistan. A Pashtun notable puts the issue succinctly, “If the Americans are serious about grabbing Osama, they will have to put up a fight with boots on the ground and accept many body bags”.
On August 10, the Daily Ummat, the number one Urdu-language paper in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, published a front-page story filed from Asadabad, Afghanistan (the capital of Kunar). The story did not appear in other Pakistani English-language papers, or in the international media.
The story was headlined “Osama spotted in Pakistani area – Dir”. Dir, in the northern strip of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is about 80 kilometers from the Afghan border in Kunar province. The story also said that Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka “The Surgeon”, was reorganizing al-Qaeda something like 50 kilometers west of Chitral. Chitral, north of Dir, is at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains.
WASHINGTON – Boston Globe July 3, 2005 — With national elections planned for September, senior Pentagon officials say they are considering a temporary increase in US forces to respond to recent attacks on the new Afghan government and a series of brazen assaults on US military forces.
On Tuesday, militants armed with a rocket-propelled grenade downed a US helicopter in the mountainous border region with Pakistan, killing all 16 Special Forces soldiers who were aboard, according to a preliminary investigation. The Navy SEALS and Army special operations commandos were on a mission to aid a small reconnaissance team that had been battling with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the area and is now missing.
Taliban spokesmen have claimed credit for shooting down the helicopter and say they have captured a US soldier and killed seven American ”spies.” The information could not be verified and an intensive search of the area by hundreds of US troops was underway for the second day yesterday.
Also, in a three-day assault that ended Friday, 25 people were killed when Taliban fighters attacked two police stations and a nearby village in southeastern Afghanistan, the spiritual heartland of the former ruling Taliban regime, including nine tribal elders, the provincial governor in Uruzgan province told the Associated Press.
Other contributing factors cited for the increase in attacks are the spring thaw in the Hindu Kush mountains, increased pressure by US forces and the Afghan government on the booming heroin trade. Robert M. Perito, a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace, said: ”The overriding story I heard is that the security is worse this spring than it was a year ago. There are more attacks and they are better organized, more lethal, and widespread.”
Lieutenant General James T. Conway, commander of the First Marine Expeditionary Unit, told reporters: “There is an increased presence of IEDs. If you charted it over time, you would see more attacks tied into IEDs than perhaps we had over the last six to 10 months.”
The tactics have taken their toll. In the past three months, 29 US troops have been killed, including the 16 in last week’s helicopter attack, the deadliest since US forces invaded on Oct. 7, 2001. This year is already the deadliest for US troops, 52 troops died last year, 47 soldiers were killed in 2003 and 43 in 2002. From October to December 2001, 12 US military personnel were killed.
Before last week’s attacks, 194 troops had died since the start of the war, 80 from hostile fire and 114 in military accidents. According to the Pentagon figures, 506 soldiers were wounded in action as of June 25.
Asadabad is located in the northeastern province of Kunar. It is a mountainous region, and Asadabad is about five miles from the Pakistani border.
Asadabad – Area Map
CIA Contractor Indicted for Abuse of Afghan Detainee
June 17, 2004 — A 38-year-old North Carolina man has been indicted for assaulting an Afghan detainee while working as a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency at a U.S. military base in Asadabad, Afghanistan.
CS Monitor – Background Info Kunar Province
Tora Bora base near Jalalabad was rebuilt on the site of a camp first constructed by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1980s.
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Hey Oui, thanks for the links. I’ve been trying to keep up with Afghanistan for quite a few months now and think that what’s going on there and not reported is even more of crime by the MSM here than the scant real news from Iraq.
I think also that when using the word quagmire about Iraq americans should start talking about bush’s not one but two quagmires….bushco is failing (very unfortunately) spectacularly in both places through their misguided greed and disregard for troops and civilians. If anyone has forgotten 9/11 it’s bushco…as far as following through on getting bin Laden.
thanks oui, thanks much for the added material.
“US troops have rescued a special forces soldier missing in Afghanistan for almost a week…There has been no word on the fate of the remaining three members of his team…”
Link: BBC NEWS
Peace
ok, now that answers my question from above. wonder what information he has to offer to the situation.