Taliban bring down U.S. helicopter

Officials and Thirty-one U.S. Special Forces were killed in Afghanistan when the Taliban shot down their planes, Saturday, the deadliest incident for foreign troops in a war that lasted ten years - Poly Alam, Afghanistan (AFP).

To kill Americans and seven Afghan soldiers during an operation to fight the Taliban on Friday night when a rocket fired by insurgents landed their planes hit the Chinook in Wardak province, southwest of the capital Kabul.
Given the number of deaths in a statement issued by the office of President Hamid Karzai and was not confirmed immediately by the NATO-led International Force for Security Assistance (ISAF).
"The president of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expresses its deep sympathy and condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama and the family of the victims," ​​said he.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said the local forces who were killed as they were special forces.
The U.S. television network ABC News, twenty-five of the dead U.S. Navy SEALs. The Pentagon refused to comment on the case or the number of deaths. And the strike so far the worst to hit the foreign forces since the beginning of U.S. and other international invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban in 2001 following the attacks of September 11.

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