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i have to get to this. this is your book, civilian warriors. page 180. but all we can comment o on thi, but it s right here and it says the senators, the secretary of defense and the secretary of state, respectively posed while waiting for blackwater rescue. what is a manic. okay, they were on a congressional visit to afghanistan in the winter and the u.s. army helicopter got lost in a blinding snowstorm and the taliban territory on the side of a mountain and the u.s. military launched a ground convoy then they did not get lost and we recover them. the rest of them from the taliban taliban territory. are they grateful? welcome you would think so,
last question but i have to get to this. this is your book, which is excellent, the civilian: the inside story of blackwater. page 180. you have this picture, i don t know if you can zoom in on this, it is right here, and it says three then-senators, joe biden, chuck hagel, john kerry, future president, secretary of defense, secretary of state respectively, posed while waiting for blackwater rescue. what is that? they run a congressional visit to afghanistan in the winter, the u.s. army helicopter got lost in a blinding snowstorm and set down in taliban territory on the side of a mountain. u.s. military launched a ground convoy to get them and they got lost and the black waters guys launch and did not get lost, rescued them from taliban territory, i think the winter of 08. tucker: you rescued joe biden and john kerry and chuck hagel? afraid so. tucker: are they grateful? you wouldn t think so, no.
tucker: eric rinzel founded blackwater and is a really smart and interesting person. he spent a lot of time in afghanistan. he told us back in 2008, men from blackwater it helped rescue joe biden when he was trapped in afghanistan. watch. they were on a congressional visit to afghanistan in the winter. and their u.s. army helicopter got lost in a blinding snowstorm and sat down in taliban territory in the side of a mountain. and the u.s. military launched a ground convoy to get them and they got lost and the blackwater guys lunch and we recovered them. we rescued them from taliban territory. i think that the that was the winter of 2008. tucker: you rescued them? i believe so. tucker: are they grateful? would think so. no. tucker: they are not grateful big one of the guys on this need who helped rescue
interpreter is not pictured. we were wondering about that, because obviously that could increase his level of danger that he is in currently with his family, four children stranded in that now taliban controlled country. he was 36 years old at the time. an interpreter for the u.s. army in 2008 and the army black hawk helicopters made an emergency landing during a blinding snowstorm, martha. i mean, this is remarkable. the crew sent out an urgent call for help at the airfield and he jumped in a humvee with a quick reaction force from the 82nd airborne division driving hours into the nearby mountain to rescue them, that was including senator biden at the time. he spent much of its time and now a tough valley where the soldiers said he was in more than 100 firefights with them. countless veterans and members of congress who had written to the president calling on them to go and save him and his family, this is lou turn it colonel andrew guild, his service to