Before Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17

Karen and Billy Vaughn are the parents of a fallen Navy Seal, Aaron Carson Vaughn. I met with the Vaughns when I spoke to a sold-out Tea Party event in Fort Lauderdale in June. The Vaughns are extraordinary heroes. Their courage to speak about Obama’s crippling rules of engagement is to be applauded.

The Vaughns have exposed the delusional U.S. military “rules of engagement” policy that led to the takedown of a Chinook helicopter, Extortion 17, by the Taliban. All 38 people on board the Chinook — 15 SEAL Team Six members (including Aaron Vaughn) and seven Afghan National Army commandos — were killed. The attack on Extortion 17 came just three months after the Osama bin Laden kill, and both Obama and Biden had identified the team that took OBL out. Retribution was inevitable.  Continue reading at: americanthinker.com.

This video is from Dover Air Force Base ramp ceremony. Some of the voices are in Arabic with English subtitles.  They are praising Allah and mocking the infidels (US):

A version of this post appeared here on August 7th, 2013 under the title Before There was Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17