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This really sucks....7 or 8 killed, 40 more wounded. Let's pray for our guys still over there....
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/nation/Few_details_released_in_attack_on_copters+.shtml
Seven or eight American soldiers were killed, and 40 more were wounded yesterday when two US helicopters took enemy fire during the most deadly allied air and ground offensive of the war in Afghanistan.
The assault, code-named Operation Anaconda, marked a new approach by US commanders. Instead of relying on Afghan forces to take the fight to Al Qaeda, with US troops in support, the Americans took the lead. Afghan, Canadian, Australian, German, Danish, Norwegian, and French forces were supporting.
The men killed yesterday were not the first US casualties in the new offensive, which appeared far from finished. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, of Wade, N.C., was killed in a ground attack Saturday shortly after American forces, joined by Afghan and other allied troops, began the offensive against hundreds of fighters of the Al Qaeda terror network and the former ruling Taliban militia, who are dug in near the town of Gardez.
Names of the Americans killed yesterday were being withheld until relatives could be notified.
The operation is being commanded by Major General Franklin Hagenbeck, commanding general of the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
Details on the two helicopter incidents were sketchy, and the US and Afghan death toll was uncertain.
''The fog of war will persist'' until more of the soldiers involved are brought back and debriefed, Army General Tommy Franks, commander of US Central Command, said at a news conference in Tampa, where he is headquartered. He said that, in all, either eight or nine Americans were killed.
Franks estimated that 100 to 200 enemy fighters had been killed and that a small number detained. They included Al Qaeda fighters, Taliban militia, and Chechen and Uzbek fighters, he said.
Besides the soldier lost when he fell from his chopper, Franks said that seven or eight soldiers were killed in the second incident. Franks said that all the killed and wounded were recovered in a subsequent rescue operation that he watched by video link from his Tampa headquarters.
Rumsfeld said that about half of the 40 wounded soldiers had returned to battle.
The death toll yesterday was the largest US loss from a single battle in Afghanistan, where fighting began Oct. 7. There have been several accidental crashes of other craft, including one in which seven Marines were killed when a refueling plane crashed in Pakistan.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/nation/Few_details_released_in_attack_on_copters+.shtml
Seven or eight American soldiers were killed, and 40 more were wounded yesterday when two US helicopters took enemy fire during the most deadly allied air and ground offensive of the war in Afghanistan.
The assault, code-named Operation Anaconda, marked a new approach by US commanders. Instead of relying on Afghan forces to take the fight to Al Qaeda, with US troops in support, the Americans took the lead. Afghan, Canadian, Australian, German, Danish, Norwegian, and French forces were supporting.
The men killed yesterday were not the first US casualties in the new offensive, which appeared far from finished. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, of Wade, N.C., was killed in a ground attack Saturday shortly after American forces, joined by Afghan and other allied troops, began the offensive against hundreds of fighters of the Al Qaeda terror network and the former ruling Taliban militia, who are dug in near the town of Gardez.
Names of the Americans killed yesterday were being withheld until relatives could be notified.
The operation is being commanded by Major General Franklin Hagenbeck, commanding general of the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
Details on the two helicopter incidents were sketchy, and the US and Afghan death toll was uncertain.
''The fog of war will persist'' until more of the soldiers involved are brought back and debriefed, Army General Tommy Franks, commander of US Central Command, said at a news conference in Tampa, where he is headquartered. He said that, in all, either eight or nine Americans were killed.
Franks estimated that 100 to 200 enemy fighters had been killed and that a small number detained. They included Al Qaeda fighters, Taliban militia, and Chechen and Uzbek fighters, he said.
Besides the soldier lost when he fell from his chopper, Franks said that seven or eight soldiers were killed in the second incident. Franks said that all the killed and wounded were recovered in a subsequent rescue operation that he watched by video link from his Tampa headquarters.
Rumsfeld said that about half of the 40 wounded soldiers had returned to battle.
The death toll yesterday was the largest US loss from a single battle in Afghanistan, where fighting began Oct. 7. There have been several accidental crashes of other craft, including one in which seven Marines were killed when a refueling plane crashed in Pakistan.
