THE FAMILIES OF SOME OF the 17 SEAL Team 6 commandos who were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan during a helicopter flight to help Army Rangers pinned down by Taliban gunmen accused the Obama administration of deliberately endangering their loved ones for political ends. [PHOTOS: America's Elite Navy SEALs] During a press conference on Washington Thursday, family and advocates for the fallen troops called into question the rules of engagement that they say prohibited their sons from being able to return fire, and the White House's decision to announce shortly after the killing of Osama bin Laden that SEAL Team 6 was responsible for the raid. "In releasing their identity, they put a target on their backs," said Doug Hamburger, whose son, Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Hamburger, served among the helicopter's crew. The event was organized by Freedom Watch, a conservative advocacy group, at the National Press Club. One by one, fathers and mothers of the victims of the crash spoke about what they see as gaping holes or inconsistencies in the review of what U.S. Special Operations considers its most deadly incident. In all, 17 members of the SEAL Team 6 counterterrorist force were on board the CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter, along with its Army National Guard aircrew, several support personnel and seven Afghan commandos. In all 38 troops died after the helicopter was shot down by what a review determined to be a Taliban RPG over Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 6, 2011. The team was responding to an Army Ranger unit that was engaged in a protracted firefight with Taliban fighters and needed reinforcements. The families hope to raise awareness of the incident, which they say the government has largely forgotten since the official report was released in October 2011. Some congressional lawmakers demonstrated their support for the group, including former Florida Republican Rep. Allan West -- an Iraq war vet -- and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. While the press conference was long on speculation and short on concrete evidence, the family members and their supporters didn't pull any punches. Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who served as deputy undersecretary of defense for Intelligence and was a commander in the Army's super-secret "Delta Force," denounced politicized rules of engagement as a "deliberate plot" within the American armed forces that he says puts political correctness above the safety of the troops. "We've allowed politics to become more important than the lives and safety of those men and women," he says. Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Vaughn was one of the SEAL Team 6 operators who died in the crash. His father Billy Vaughn recounted Thursday a phone call from his son following the White House decision to credit the highly secretive military unit for the bin Laden raid. "He said, 'Mom, there's chatter. My life is in danger. Your life is in danger. Get everything off your social media. Our families are in danger,' " Vaughn recalled. Aaron Vaughn's mother, Karen, also demanded an explanation for why her son and his team were not using a special operations aircraft, such as the Chinooks flown by special operations pilots, which have specialized defenses designed to fly commandos deep behind enemy lines. The CH-47D that embarked on the mission that day had been built in the 1960s, she said, and last retrofitted in the 1985. It is not uncommon for commandos to fly some of their missions aboard such aircraft in the war zone, however. She also said the team was hindered by rules of engagement that prohibited their firing on potential targets unless they could see a weapon. Military officials told her operating outside of these rules "damages our efforts to win the hearts and minds of our enemies." "The hearts and minds of our enemy are more valuable to our government than my son's blood," she said. "We have an ideology problem with this war, and we need to address it." 这是《U.S News》于2012年5月9日的一则旧闻,题为《Obama ‘Put a Target on Their Backs’, SEAL Team 6 Family Members Say》海豹突击六队的遇害队员家属们认为奥巴马把他们当活靶子送给了塔利班。 文章说,17名海豹突击6队的队员乘坐直升机执行任务,他们的任务是侦查塔利班的火力分布点,这些海豹突击队员在这次坠毁事故中遇难,他们的家属和支持者认为,奥巴马政府把他们的挚爱当作了政治筹码。 在当时华盛顿的新闻发布会上,家属和支持者们追问,为什么在击杀本 .拉登行动刚结束,奥巴马政府很快就把海豹突击六队队员的信息和照片放在了在媒体上,这无异于给了塔利班恐怖分子一份追杀名单,这些勇士本来可以活着回来。 遇难的机组成员 Patrick Hamburger 的父亲Doug Hamburger说:“把他们的照片公布出来,就相当于在他们的后背上贴了个标签“ 。 评论:坠机事件发生在喀布尔以西的瓦尔达克省坦吉山谷,是塔利班武装分子活动频繁的地区。美军直升机被武装分子用火箭弹击落,机上30名美国士兵以及8名阿富汗特种部队人员死亡,其中包括17名海豹突击六队队员。印度《孟买时报》给美军的坠机事件下了这样一个结论 “本·拉登幽灵的复仇”。死亡的突击队员都来自海豹6队,而2011年5月美军抓捕拉登行动就是海豹6队重点参与的。 今天推特上最轰动的莫过于艾伦. 伍兹的爆料,他准备了几个TB的材料(包括文字,电话录音,视频)要送给川普,所有的材料将于本周六曝光,这些材料是有关当年奥巴马政府如何跟伊朗做交易,又是什么原因,致使执行“海神之矛”刺杀本拉登的行动海豹突击6队,事后几乎全军覆没。 伍兹简单的在视频中透露,当年,希拉里和拜登私底下要求伊朗政府设法将本.拉登送到巴基斯坦,以便于美军行动。伊朗将计就计,真的把本拉登送到了巴基斯坦,但他们一转身就跑去跟奥巴马谈条件说:“看,我们有个糟糕的消息,你得给我们1520亿美元替你们保守这个秘密”。与此同时希拉里和拜登趁机威胁刚刚上任不久的奥巴马,你必须照做,要不就会葬送你得政治生涯。这就是我们接下来看到的美国和伊朗的所谓核武器协议,伍兹怒斥“ 奥巴马行贿邪恶的伊朗独裁政权,而拜登手上沾满了海豹突击6队的鲜血,突击6队被永远关闭了。” 这位白发苍苍的老人表示他不惧怕死亡,他坚信有一只无形的力量在保护着我们,而我们站在胜利的一方。 链接1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/10/25/benghazi-obamas-actions-amount-to-a-shameful-dereliction-of-duty/#7ce4dc25359c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_VQ0CP2S5U&feature=emb_logo https://djhjmedia.com/kari/explosive-cia-whistleblower-exposes-bidens-alleged-role-with-the-deaths-of-seal-team-claims-to-have-documented-proof/ |