Taliban Official Claims Role in US Chinook Shootdown that Killed 38 in 2011
11 Oct 2021
Coffee or Die Magazine | By Hollie McKay
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In a stuffy office covered with white-and-black Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan flags and full of Taliban foot soldiers sipping cold tea, Akif Muhajer sits poised and composed, every bit the administrator he now is as the newly appointed director of information and culture in the Taliban-controlled Logar province.
But from behind his desk, he speaks casually about his many years waging war in the mountains, his weapons, and the battles he saw.
He says one of those battles — or at least moments of combat — was the 2011 shootdown of Extortion 17, the deadliest single moment of the 20-year war for the American military.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/11/taliban-official-claims-role-us-chinook-shootdown-killed-38-2011.html
