3 U.S. Troops Killed is the Killer Osama

World News - Foreign forces in Afghanistan on Sunday (07/08/2011) investigate whether the fall of the helicopter in the single deadliest incident for U.S. troops in the war decade was a result of being shot by the Taliban of Afghanistan.

Chinook helicopters

A total of 30 U.S. soldiers, some of them are members of special forces Navy SEAL Team 6, which killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden-and seven Afghan soldiers and a translator were killed in the crash on Friday (05/08/2011) night.

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for dropping the helicopter with rocket-propelled grenades though some time ago Taliban overvalued statement in response to incidents involving foreign troops.

However, U.S. officials in Washington said the helicopter was believed to be shot down. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan have the certainty of the death toll, which was first announced by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and stated that the cause of the accident was still under investigation.

Deadly crash that happened just before foreign troops scheduled to complete the handover of security to the army and local police in late 2014. Chinook went down in Maidan Wardak province, central Afghanistan, in the western part of Kabul, the capital of the country.

"No words can describe our grief in the midst of this sad loss," said Gen. John Allen, who replaced Gen. David Petraeus three weeks ago as ISAF commander, in a statement released last night.

"All those killed in the movement is the true hero, who gives a lot in defending freedom," he said.

A U.S. official said, some U.S. soldiers who were killed were members of SEAL Team 6. None of those killed were part of the troops who carried out attacks against Bin Laden in Pakistan in May.

The accident was the deadliest single incident for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, ISAF said. U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement on Saturday said the United States would remain responsible for completing the job in Afghanistan, who echoed NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

The accident is expected to lead to more questions about the security transition and how long foreign troops should stay. The entire foreign combat troops would leave the war-torn country at the end of 2014, but some U.S. lawmakers have questioned whether it is fast enough.

"It was very heartbreaking. A deep sorrow for the death in a helicopter disaster. But even more important is the greater tragedy would occur under a wave of emotion and use it as an excuse to back out now," former British Chief of General Staff, General Lord Dannatt, in The Sunday Telegraph.