Four days before this story was published, 30 Americans perished when their helicopter -- call sign "Extortion 17" -- was shot down in Afghanistan. The majority of those on board the aircraft were members of SEAL Team Six, the "silent professionals" who had gained unwanted attention for their work on the raid only a few weeks earlier that took out Osama bin laden. Coincidence or not? Read more about the Extortion 17 mission in the soon-to-be-released book, BETRAYED: The High Cost of the War on Terror. Details at SpecialOpsBetrayed.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:10:56 +0000
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