When news leaked Saturday about the US Navy Seals killed aboard a helicopter that was shot down, I suspected something was wrong. I thought the Afghans who knew about the mission had tipped off the Taliban. Instead the opposite had happened,  the Taliban tipped off the Afghan Army and US military to a supposed top level meeting. The raid began and the Taliban was ready. The rest is history.

The Taliban lured US forces into an elaborate trap to shoot down their helicopter, killing 30 American troops in the deadliest such incident of the war, an Afghan official said Monday.

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A senior Afghan government official told AFP on condition of anonymity that Taliban commander Qari Tahir lured US forces to the scene by tipping them off that a Taliban meeting was taking place.

He also said four Pakistanis helped Tahir carry out the strike.

“Now it’s confirmed that the helicopter was shot down and it was a trap that was set by a Taliban commander,” said the official, citing intelligence gathered from the area.

“The Taliban knew which route the helicopter would take,” he continued.

“That’s the only route, so they took position on the either side of the valley on mountains and as the helicopter approached, they attacked it with rockets and other modern weapons. It was brought down by multiple shots.”

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to discuss the issue, also said President Hamid Karzai’s US-backed government “thinks” the attack was retaliation for the May killing of Osama bin Laden.

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If the report is true, clearly this was retaliation for Osama’s death. The 4 Pakistanis, must be ISI and if so, something needs to be done about this. Our honor was insulted, we need to teach the Taliban and their Pakistani masters a lesson. With Obama in the White House, I’m not holding my breath.