Friday, July 26, 2013

Two years later, Congress to investigate the crash that killed members of SEAL Team Six


Special to WorldTribune.com

At last, there will be a congressional inquiry into the strange circumstances surrounding the fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan in August 2011, which resulted in the deaths of 30 American service members and 8 Afghans, including elite troops from Navy SEAL Team Six, the contingent who killed Osama bin Laden a few months earlier.

"We're going to dive into this," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security, told The Hill.

Parents of the fallen have repeatedly asked the military top brass, including President Barack Obama, for answers to their questions. Instead of being told the truth about what happened that night, they have been bullied, mocked, intimidated, ignored and repeatedly lied to.

"My son was murdered," said Charlie Strange in an exclusive interview with WorldTribune.com. Mr. Strange still "cries every day" over the loss of his son Michael, but he is outraged that his legitimate concerns have been routinely dismissed as merely the befuddled complaints of a "grieving father."

Yet, he and other family members who lost their sons that evening, knew from the moment they were debriefed about the fatal crash, that the official story the American government was peddling did not make sense.

"They were talking to us like we were complete idiots," said Mr. Strange, recalling the debriefing on Oct. 12, 2011 in Little Creek, Virginia. Brigadier General Jeffrey Colt, who conducted the investigation, attributed the shooting down of the helicopter to a "lucky shot" from the Taliban, by some low-level, lone fighter. Mr. Strange cried out that evening: "Are you kidding me? A 'lucky shot' would be if he had missed."

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