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May-30-2007 17:47printcommentsVideo

Seven Killed in NATO Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Initial media reports said the helicopter was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. Included in this report is a look at the type of helicopter that crashed, filed recently by Tim King in Afghanistan.

CH-47 Chinook photo
Photo: US Army

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - Five Americans and two other soldiers were killed when a NATO Chinook helicopter was shot down in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, NATO said.

The Taliban claimed credit for shooting it down.

It is also reported that troops responding to the scene were ambushed by enemy fighters and called for an air strike to eliminate the threat, NATO said.

Initial media reports said the helicopter was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.

A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, claimed in a phone call to The Associated Press that militants shot the helicopter down in southern Helmand province, the world's largest opium poppy-growing region where combat has been heavy in recent months.

The CH-47 Chinook, a heavy transport helicopter with two rotors, went down in the southern province of Helmand, where Western forces have clashed repeatedly with Taliban guerrillas in recent months following a winter lull in fighting.

"The entire crew of five died in the incident. There were also two military passengers who died," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement. "One Afghan civilian was injured by small arms fire after the crash."

The helicopter went down in the Kajaki region, where Afghan government and foreign officials are hoping to eliminate guerrillas in order to carry out a key hydro-electric project; the reconstruction of the Kajaki dam.

Taliban leaders have threatened in recent weeks to step up attacks on NATO and US-led coalition troops.

Last year's fighting between Western forces and the militants was the bloodiest since the US-led overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.

In February, eight US troops were killed when a Chinook crashed in Zabul province. Mechanical failure was blamed.

In May 2006, a Chinook crash killed 10 US servicemen in Kunar province.

Three Chinook crashes in 2005 were blamed for the deaths of 37 US troops. One of those helicopters was shot down.


Watch the Streaming Video News Report below, Helicopters Thunder Across Afghanistan Territory, from Tim King who filed over 30 reports last winter as an embedded reporter in Kabul, Afghanistan. The story takes the viewer inside the type of helicopter that crashed today:

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Elias May 17, 2011 2:59 am (Pacific time)

I actually can't believe you would say something bogus as the traitor Afghans who were on that Chinook during in the video, were brave and they sent great fear in the heart of the taliban.
Then you went on to say that the Taliban were known for their hatred for women LoL.
You know former actor Charleton Heston once said to Bill Clinton:
"Mr President, when you what say is wrong that is a mistake. When you know what you say is wrong that is a lie".
Then you go on to say that people of Afghanistan are known to be tough and they have no problem putting up with that kind of cold without adequate food or fuel and even children are seen walking in the snow without shoes, then you say that is pathetic . What exactly is pathetic? the fact that they are tougher than your coward foggot soldiers?!
If I had to guess and judging by your last name King you can only be a f*cking Jew.
Not even the professional intelligence and courtesy to report the News as they happen, leaving out personal, biased, incorrect feelings in a supposed to be professional unbiased journalistic report. huh!
But what else can be expected from a bunch of f*cking savages who used to kill Prophets of their own flesh and blood?!
Hey here is a question I have always asked myself. As a matter of fact, a lot of people out there are begining to ask themselves the same question.
Hitler only came to power in 1936 or there about. Therefore he only began rounding up Jews into concentration camps from that point onwards.
But the f*cking Zionist jew pigs had been persecuting the Palestinians, the real land owners, long before that; starting in 1917 and the proposition of Balfour.
This is common knowledge shit for brains.
Is it possible that Hilter learned his persecution methods from the Zionist pigs themselves?!
Is it possible that Hilter was actually trying to stop the fucking Jews from going to invade Palestine and persecute the locals?!
I mean it is common knowledge that the very same Jews who escaped Hitler and went to Palestine committed worse atrocities against Palestinians the locals I remind you always.
Perhaps Hilter knew something about the nature of the evil Jew that most did not!
In conclusion, I guess you can the Zionist fucking Jew pig out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the Zionist fucking Jew pig.
There is something you should report on you fucking lying piece of shit.
Here is another thing you can report on: look up online: "list of accidents and incidents of aircrafts in Afghanistan"
over 100 aircrafts were downed since 2001 that you enemies of humanity.
around 30,000 U.S dog soldiers killed and 100,000 maimed dog U.S soldiers so far. That's not including the other coalition casualties.
over £5 Trillion lost during the both wars in Aghanistan and Iraq.
Go ahead and gloat over that shamefull defeat shit head.
You curse the Taliban, yet there men, real men, who chose to fight an international coalition armed to the teeth just to protect a few guests.
Now there's the stuff real men ought to be made of you son of a bitch.
May I remind you that those real tough, brave, honourable, proud, righteous warriors are armed with no more than turbans, sandals, small arms, IED's, bread and tomatoes, a will of steel and a lot of faith.
Good luck trying to defeat them!!!
Go ahead sue me you f*cking lying coward. Or meet me face to face if you have the balls to insult and lie about Muslims in front of me.


My name is Elias as in Prophet Elias the Muslim Hebrew prophet. anything, anywhere anytime liar boy.

Have a nice lying day Tim you fancy little f*ck.


Tim King: I operate the only news web group in the US that constantly covers the conflict in the Middle east from a Palestinian perspective.  You are so nasty, unbelievable.  The things I say about the Taliban come from my Afghan friends and contacts, and you make no sense at all friend.  Nasty, you are such a sad piece of work that I really have to wonder.  This article is from 2007 by the way.  I am not in favor of the US occupation.  So now that we have that out of the way, where are you located?  

P.S. tell me, what is it that makes ass wipes like you engage their traps before they engage their minds?
Is it the hypocrisy that runs in their veins or the excrement in their brains?

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