The families of the 17 Navy SEAL Team 6 members killed when their Chinook helicopter was downed in Afghanistan in August 2011 blame the US command and the Obama administration for the tragedy and want an official investigation into what they are calling a whitewash.
The family members, speaking at the National Press Club last Thursday, tried to reopen the book on the crash, in which a total of 38 were killed, including the SEALs who belonged to the same unit as those who carried out the raid on Osama bin Laden earlier that year. The Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban.
During the event organized by Freedom Watch, founded by lawyer Larry Klayman, and StandUpAmericaUS.org, founded by retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, family members and former military personnel claimed President Obama turned the SEALs group into a Taliban target after the administration revealed they had conducted the bin Laden raid. The raid on Osama’s compound was also depicted in the Academy Award nominated film Zero Dark Thirty.
In fact, the much talked about film won only one award. An industry publication remarked, “Zero Dark Thirty, about the decade-long US hunt for Osama bin Laden, has received more attention in the US Congress than it did at the Oscars on Sunday, amid political fallout over its depiction of torture and the leaking of classified intelligence leaks to the movie’s makers.”
Doug Hamburger, whose son Patrick was killed, called the incident “an ambush” that could have been prevented.
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