Taliban claims it shoots down helicopter in Helmand province

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Taliban claims it shoots down helicopter in Helmand province

January 16th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

A senior government security source from Helmand province, who asked not to be named, also said he understood the helicopter had been shot down.

Taliban claims of responsibility for battlefield exploits are not always reliable, and they have in the past claimed they shot down helicopters that were brought down by technical problems.

Emergency helicopter landings are a regular occurrence in Afghanistan’s harsh conditions, but there have been very few cases of insurgents shooting them down.

However last August the Taliban fighter did hit a Nato helicopter in a remote valley southwest of Kabul, killing all 38 people on board. It was the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.