American botched rescue attempt

11th October 2010. A British aid worker may have died when U.S. special forces lobbed a grenade in a frantic bid to save her from the Taliban. Linda Norgrove, 36, was fatally wounded when U.S. troops stormed the compound where she was being held hostage. It was initially thought she died when her captors blew-up a suicide vest. But today Prime Minister David Cameron said a review of the Navy SEALs' rescue operation had uncovered a new 'deeply distressing development' suggesting a grenade detonated by taskforce members may have been to blame. The commander General David Petraeus informed Downing Street this morning that a review of the botched rescue had uncovered shocking new information.

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[GingersAreFags1]

Wow our special forces are completely useless, why did the UK send US special forces in? The SAS are highly more trained then our SF. WHY WAS A GRENADE THROWN IN A HOSTAGE SITUATION, WOW RETARDATION.

[plagalcadenze]

@GingersAreFags1 - I agree with that!

[Hperman09]

@WolveZGuY SAS/SBS has some screws up too. In 2009 during a stephen farrall rescue, SBS accidently killed munadi, afghan women, and child not only that but one SBS was killed at that raid. An Afgan guy said that women and child was killed when SAS/SBS used explosive(really?) to blow up a door. In 2007, a joint op between Italian SF and SBS to rescue of Lorenzo D' Auria and 2 Italian hostage, an SBS shot 3 of them, killing Lorenzo and 2 injured. no one perfect. we have plenty of successes too.

[danielvincentkelley]

Killing was probably ordered. Maybe she was on Stockholm syndrome and agreeing with her captors and that presented to the kill team as a reason to kill her that the military maintain the propaganda that the people they're fighting over there are disageeable. Maybe she got an earful bout US brutality and had made up her mind to stance against the war. Hostage rescue situations NEVER call for throwing frag grenades into an unchecked room, especially in the compound the rescue's supposed to happen.

[danielvincentkelley]

David Camer On? What a sh*t choice of doppleganger. Guy doesn't even have a dimple on his chin. Why's MI6 getting so cheap with the plastic surgery. Crazy. Plus his jowl isn't full of funk obviously as Camer On's seems certainly. Search this on google and tell me these 2 are the same guy: david cameron inplaceoffear

[Bubo25]

@Tree0rnament No it couldn't ever have happened to the SAS actually, because the SAS NEVER-EVER use live frag grenades on hostage rescue missions. Only incompetent retarded apes use frag grenades on rescue missions. You know when this mission failed? No, not during the battle. The mission failed when those cowboys decided to take live grenades on the mission rather than Flash Bang stun grenades.

[TheGameBWS09]

@Tree0rnament The Iranian embassy was a success but the American Iranian embassy siege (Operation Eagle Claw) was a failure,SAS basically ended the First Gulf war,SAS basically won the Falklands war.....FACT.....What has the American special forces acheived? NOTHING."In 2005 a British bodyguard, David Addison, was killed by his Taliban captors as US special forces stormed the compound where he was being held."- Source Telegraph

[TheGameBWS09]

@Tree0rnament The Iranian embassy was a success but the American Iranian embassy siege (Operation Eagle Claw) was a failure,SAS basically ended the First Gulf war,SAS basically won the Falklands war.....FACT.....What has the American special forces acheived? NOTHING."In 2005 a British bodyguard, David Addison, was killed by his Taliban captors as US special forces stormed the compound where he was being held."

[Hperman09]

@Tree0rnament I thought the hostage was killed by a kidnapper in Iranian hostage siege.

[Tree0rnament]

@GingersAreFags1 No, there were women and children in the village, and none of them were hurt.

"UK SF> US SF - FACT."

How can that be a fact when 99% of all USSF and UKSF missions remain classified?

[Tree0rnament]

@WolveZGuY Didn't an SAS operator receive burns during the Iranian embassy siege after getting caught in his gear, and having a friendly SAS operators flash-bang light the drapes on fire?

Yeah, mistakes are still made by individuals...