Sunday, 7 August 2011

SEAL Team Six,killed

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —Saturday, The Taliban claimed they downed the CH-47 Chinook  with a rocket while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in the province of Wardak overnight during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden in a May raid in Pakistan, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday, It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war.The casualties are believed to be largest loss of life in the history of SEAL Team Six, officially called the Navy Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU. The team is considered the best of the best among the already elite SEALs, which numbers 3,000 personnel.

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