{"id":31612,"date":"2011-08-06T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=31612"},"modified":"2011-08-08T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:52:14","slug":"isaf-helicopter-shot-down-38-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=31612","title":{"rendered":"ISAF helicopter shot down, 38 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Mohammad Farid Karimi &amp; Javed Hamim Kakar \u2013 uruknet.info August 6, 2011<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter was shot down in the central Maidan Wardak province, officials said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai said that 31 US Special Forces and seven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Karzai expressed condolences to US President Barack Obama and the families of the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The incident took place Friday night in the Syedabad district, the governor\u2019s spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, told Pajhwok Afghan News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He told Pajhwok that ISAF soldiers had suffered casualties in the crash but he could not provide exact figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and said that 38 people were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The chopper crashed near a village in the Tangi area of Syedabad district, the district chief, Dr.Muslim, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a statement to Pajhwok Afghan News Saturday morning, ISAF confirmed &#8220;an incident involving a helicopter in eastern Afghanistan&#8221;, saying that investigations and recovery operations were underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;ISAF reporting indicates there was enemy activity in the area,&#8221; the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uruknet.info\/?p=m80255&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one U.S. Special Forces and seven Afghan army troops are reported to have been killed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31723,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions\/31723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}