Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:55am EDT
...The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (click here) said the casualties occurred on Monday when the unit came into contact with enemy forces. It did not give the nationality of the dead soldiers.
Local police chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai said of the incident in Zabul province's Arghandab district: "The five killed were American soldiers who just returned from an operation when they were hit.
"ISAF troops were returning to their bases after an operation when they were ambushed by the insurgents. The air strike mistakenly hit their own forces and killed the soldiers."
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said insurgents had been attacking the foreign forces when the helicopters intervened and accidentally killed their own troops....
The soldiers were even involved in fighting when this occurred. They survived the ambush to be killed by their back up helicopter. ????????????????
They need to come home.
The soldiers were even involved in fighting when this occurred. They survived the ambush to be killed by their back up helicopter. ????????????????
They need to come home.
