- KARACHI - At least 35
personnel
of the US Special Forces were killed and many injured in an attack by the
Taliban in southern Afghanistan, sources told The News on Friday.
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- The sources said 35 bodies have arrived at Jacobabad
Airbase, where heavy activity is being witnessed as the US helicopters
are busy bringing in bodies and injured from Afghanistan. The Pentagon
and the Centcom are very much perturbed over this development and there
are reports of immediate measures being contemplated to counter the
situation.
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- The sources said 10 C-130s are ready to dispatch the
bodies to the US. According to sources, the action, which began on Thursday
was also backed by helicopter gunships. The US had launched attack against
Taliban and al-Qaeda members but were caught by surprise and had to
withdraw
quickly. The US Embassy and Army sources were tight-lipped about the
incident.
It is one of the heaviest casualties, suffered by the US Army in one action
since they launched attacks against the Taliban.
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- The reported killing of 35 US troops appears to be action
similar to the previous aborted US heli-borne action carried out in
mid-October
in which the attacking US troops got pinned down in the face of severe
hostile enemy fire. The US troops were caught by surprise. So intense was
the attack that the Special Forces personnel had to quickly withdraw
without
any operational achievement. In that attack one US helicopter crashed in
Afghanistan while another 'hit' chopper later crashed along with troops
and crew in Pakistan.
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