{"id":63686,"date":"2016-01-06T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63686"},"modified":"2016-01-06T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:23:07","slug":"special-forces-troops-surrounded-in-marjah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63686","title":{"rendered":"Special forces troops surrounded in Marjah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/01\/06\/us-troops-embroiled-in-firefight-after-helicopter-crash-in-afghanistan.html?intcmp=hplnws\">Fox News<\/a> reports that several special forces operators are surrounded by Taliban in a compound located in Marjah. One soldier has been killed and two more wounded in a crashed helicopter;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn the map there is one green dot representing friendly forces stuck in the compound, and around it is a sea of red [representing hostile forces],\u201d the official told Fox News.  <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, two USAF HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters were sent to rescue the U.S. special operations team.  One of the helicopters took fire and waved off the mission and flew back to base.  <\/p>\n<p>The other helicopter\u2019s blades struck the wall of the compound while attempting a rescue of the special operations team, according to defense officials who compared the scene to one similar to the helicopter crash inside Usama bin Laden\u2019s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on the mission to kill the Al Qaeda leader in May 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The joint U.S. and Afghan special operations team was sent to Marjah to clear the area of Taliban fighters, who have retaken most of the town since November.<\/p>\n<p>There were nine airstrikes on Tuesday in support of a clearing operation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that our guys are sending loads of Taliban to their virgins&#8217; waiting arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that several special forces operators are surrounded by Taliban in a compound located &hellip; <a title=\"Special forces troops surrounded in Marjah\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63686\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special forces troops surrounded in Marjah<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}