Afghanistan War News Updates -- August 8, 2011





Fallen Troops' Bodies On Way Home After Crash -- CBS News



(CBS/AP)



KABUL, Afghanistan - International military forces worked on Monday to recover every last piece of a Chinook helicopter that crashed over the weekend, killing 30 American troops, seven Afghan soldiers and an Afghan interpreter, NATO said.



Plans were in place for the fallen U.S. troops' bodies to be flown home to American soil on Tuesday morning aboard a military plane destined for Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.



The technical repatriation of the troops' remains was to take place at the U.S. Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan later Monday, a military source tells CBS News.



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Remembering the fallen: Troops are identified in helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan -- Washington Post

Families and friends remember those lost in Afghanistan crash -- FOX News

Navy SEALs Mourn Their Most Tragic Day -- NPR

U.S. troops in Afghanistan sad, angry over deaths in downing of chopper -- Stars and Stripes

Foreign troops comb helicopter crash site in Afghanistan -- Reuters

NATO Secures Afghan Crash Site -- Voice of America

Slain Navy SEALs had targeted known Taliban leader, officials say -- CNN

Commandos were targeting Taliban leader -- UPI

US helicopter shot down in Afghanistan was on rescue mission -- The Guardian

Elite Force Died in Bid to Save Comrades -- Wall Street Journal

AP sources: SEALs killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan had been on mission to aid Rangers -- Washington Post

Nato Chinook helictoper shooting: Navy SEALS 'were helping Army Rangers in trouble' -- The Telegraph

Doomed soldiers were racing to save Army Rangers when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan -- New York Daily News

Four Pak nationals helped Taliban shoot down US helicopter: Afghan official -- Yahoo News/ANI

Nato probes helicopter crash that killed 38 -- The Independent

How the Taliban Brought Down the SEALs' Chopper -- Time

US helicopter 'crashed in Taliban trap' -- AFP

Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs? -- Danger Room

Taliban claim new weapon after US helicopter crash -- The National

Afghan official says Taliban lured US special forces into trap with false information -- Global Post

Choppers in Afghanistan vital and vulnerable -- AFP



Probe continues in weekend crash as 2nd NATO copter makes hard landing -- CNN

Another Chinook helicopter crash lands in Afghanistan days after Taliban kills 38 -- Daily Mail

Nato helicopter crash-lands in Afghanistan -- The Guardian

NATO helicopter makes ‘hard landing’ in southeastern Afghanistan -- Washington Post

NATO: Helicopter makes hard landing in Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/AP

Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan -- AFP

Ten policemen killed in Afghanistan -- Big Pond News

In Afghanistan, more and more roadside bombs -- Yahoo News/AFP



Scottish soldier 'sliced off the fingers of dead Taliban' -- The Telegraph

British soldier 'kept Taliban fingers as souvenirs' -- The Guardian

MoD probes claims that soldier kept Taliban fingers -- AFP



Attack on U.S. copter signals declining security in Afghanistan -- Seattle Times/New York Times

Afghanistan chopper downing raises concerns over U.S. -- L.A. Times

Al Qaeda and the SEALs -- Nicholas Schmidle, New Yorker

Afghanistan: 'We can't allow this helicopter tragedy to stop military operations' -- Kunal Dutta and Paul Bignell, Independent

The Limits of the Surge: Petraeus' Legacy in Afghanistan -- John Wendle, Time



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