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TwilightGardener

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11. There hasn't been a lack of interest at all. Just that the attempts to

Reply to another_liberal (Reply #10)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 05:24 PM

Feb 2014

find him and get him back have been done quietly, for obvious reasons. The SEAL book excerpt proves we've been trying to get him for a while. This isn't a new story--just that we're mostly packing up in Afghanistan and may not have a better chance of winning his release in the future, so there's more urgency. But, yeah, I would think it would have been a news story of some importance if the rescue attempts resulted in deaths, and I hadn't heard that previously.

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That poor guy . . . another_liberal Feb 2014 #1

I don't recall any failed rescue attempts that resulted in us losing special ops guys for TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #3

From that Navy Seal book.....please forgive the Faux News source.... msanthrope Feb 2014 #5

I know they were looking for him, but I hadn't heard that anyone died in the attempt TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #6

Thank you. another_liberal Feb 2014 #7

The point is, did we lose any special forces, and how many? Because that would be TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #9

That is your point, you chose to stress it. another_liberal Feb 2014 #10

There hasn't been a lack of interest at all. Just that the attempts to TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #11

I dont know if any of this was ever denied by the family 7962 Feb 2014 #8

Give them an ultimatum cosmicone Feb 2014 #2

Yeah, that would work so well. tabasco Feb 2014 #4

I am sure they are bombing their strongholds as often as they can find them Ash_F Feb 2014 #12

Their strongholds? former9thward Feb 2014 #13

They would have to Bomb the "Ally" Pakistan warrant46 Feb 2014 #14

I am sure we all saw this coming sjdnb Feb 2014 #15