So this will probably not be the "Good News"(tm) story chosen by US
broadcast networks to end their dinner-time evening newscast today.

So - does this mean that Seal Team 6 (that found and extracted Bin Laden
from Pakystan) are now all dead? Or were they already eliminated before
this fine example of precision ordinance deployment?

Too bad all the blood and treasure you spilled in Iraq and Afghanistan
was for nothing.

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/milit...raq-1402387098

Islamist insurgents seized control of Iraq's second-largest city on
Tuesday in a brazen military operation that underscored the weakness of
the central government across vast swaths of the country.
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You went in and raped Iraq, left it a shell unable to re-establish
itself politically or defend itself from terrorists, and now it's
disintigrating. None of that would have happened if you left Hussein in
power.

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Friendly Fire Strike Kills 5 Special Operations Soldiers in Afghanistan
By AZAM AHMEDJUNE 10, 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan — Five American Special Operations service members
and at least one Afghan soldier were killed when a United States Air
Force B-1 bomber unleashed an airstrike on their position in southern
Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest instances of friendly fire in more
than a decade of war, Afghan and American officials said Tuesday.

Investigators were looking into possible causes, including faulty
coordinates, an errant bomb or other human error.

The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said in a statement
that five American soldiers had been killed “during a security operation
in southern Afghanistan.”

“Investigators are looking into the likelihood that friendly fire was
the cause,” he added. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of
these fallen.”
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The deaths happened Monday night in the restive Arghandab district of
Zabul Province, where troops were conducting security operations
connected to the presidential runoff election on Saturday, said Ghulam
Sakhi Roghliwanai, the province’s police chief.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/wo...ghanistan.html