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The Story Behind Biden’s Emergency Helicopter Landing in Afghanistan

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

First it was Hillary telling us about her near-death experience in Bosnia. Now Biden is telling us how he was forced down in his helicopter in Afghanistan.

“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

Wow, it sounds like Biden & Co. were in big trouble in Afghanistan.  I wonder what happened?

In February 2008, Biden — along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. — was on a chopper that made an emergency landing in the mountains of Afghanistan.

A snowstorm had forced them down.

No one was injured, and the Associated Press reported at the time that “the senators and their delegation returned to Bagram Air Base in a motor convoy, and left for Turkey.

Kerry joked, “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn’t have to do it…Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.” 

It looks like the walking gaffe machine, Joe Biden, is at it again. Between this and his continued propagation of a thoroughly debunked rumor that the person who killed his wife and child was driving drunk , it makes you wonder where Biden will strike next.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Other Suspects Want Martyrdom, Reject Court

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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Writer Stephen King: If You Can’t Read, You’ll End Up in the Army or Iraq

Monday, May 5th, 2008

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Alleged head of al-Qaida in Somalia said killed in airstrike

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I think this is al-Qaida’s chicken’s coming home to roost.

The spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia, Sheik Muqtar Robow, said the strike killed Aden Hashi Ayro, his brother and seven others at his house in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles north of Mogadishu. Six more people were wounded.

“Our brother martyr Aden Hashi, has received what he was looking for _ death for the sake of Allah _ at the hands of the United States.”

I’m glad we could help. Anyone else who would like to die for Allah, step forward and raise your hand. We can take care of you right now. Really, no waiting. We’re here to help.

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