Payback or Propaganda?

International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday’s mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

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In a separate statement Wednesday, the military said the Monday strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the rocket-propelled grenade at the helicopter. The military said intelligence gained on the ground provided a high degree of confidence that the insurgent who fired the grenade was the person killed. It did not provide further details.

Source: Associated Press

Questions about the downing of the SEAL Team Six Chinook helicopter over the weekend abound. Alex Jones of Infowars.com is a leading proponent of the theory that members of Seal Team Six, who reportedly executed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, were killed to keep the true story quiet. According to Jones, multiple military sources have confirmed to him that the SEALs were waiting for an opportune time to break the story. After the weekend crash, a source by the name of Colonel Sixx, who appeared on Infowars, claims that several families of the SEALs may be preparing to take their story public. Jones suggests that other SEALs in the unit may be aware of a cover up and are themselves preparing to take action:

“This whole thing stinks to high heaven. The SEALs are very angry and believe that it was a hit. They’re not stupid. They’re very tight knit. They’re very in tune… this is definitely a cover up with what happened with the OBL staged killing.”

An article published by mainstream news outlet Reuters asks What happened on night of deadly Afghanistan helicopter crash? and addresses the military operation itself. It makes no mention of Jones’ insinuations.