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| Afghanistan |
| Troops search for sergeant's killers |
| 2002-05-21 |
| As many as 100 U.S. Special Forces troops raided a compound in eastern Afghanistan in a search for attackers who killed an American soldier in an ambush. No shots were fired in the raid near the village of Shkin, but "intelligence items" were seized, Maj. Bryan Hilferty said at the main allied air base at Bagram. Sgt. Gene Arden Vance Jr., 38, of Morgantown, W.Va., was killed Sunday when a coalition patrol was ambushed in Shkin by 50 unidentified attackers, Hilferty said. His body was flown Monday to a U.S. military base in Germany. There's the difference between them and us: Our guys raided the village, but no shots were fired, even though our guy was killed from ambush. If we were Islamists, we'd have shot the place up and probably beheaded a few people. Maybe all of them. "We just had intelligence on where we think that the people who ambushed our soldiers the other night were so we conducted a raid in that location," Hilferty said. "We tracked them to this particular place, but they weren't there when we got there." Come back in a week, without telling Mahmud's second cousin first, and you can pick them up while they're busy beating their wives. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |