Taliban Captures 11 US Soldiers from Helicopter
* Claim 11 US military personnel were on the aircraft which came down in bad weather
* Captives ‘transferred to the most secure region of the nation’; helicopter torched
PULI ALAM: The Taliban said Monday they had captured foreigners from a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan, which officials said had seven Turks and two Russians on board.
The insurgent militia claimed 11 US military personnel were on the aircraft which came down Sunday in bad weather in Logar province, just south of Kabul. The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said no foreign military were involved and the helicopter was a civilian one. It said it had no information on the fate of the aircraft or its occupants. The Taliban said on its website that the foreigners “were captured alive and were then transferred to the most secure region of the nation,” adding that the helicopter had been torched.
The Taliban claimed it had 11 US military members, including two translators, on board. “The foreign forces, by disassociating themselves from the helicopter, are trying to make it seem as the detainees are civilians but denial will not benefit them as all were captured while wearing American military uniforms,” it said.
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Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Taliban = Mujahideen
Hezbollah, Iran = Terrorist
Get it, queers?