[caww]

WHy not? I would think the Special forces were given the ok to go after these creeps and they know fully well how to obtain intelligence etc. to get the job done.

If the taliban were seen leaving the area and or before or both...which apparently they were...then tracking them would not be an issue for special forces.....even if they were not seen...money talks in Afghanistan.

[skeeter]

This wasn't a bank robbery. The shootdown was in a remote valley which presumably had many hostiles present. How did we pinpoint those directly responsible in the immediate aftermath of the crash? Those guys were probably moving before the missile hit. How did we track them for TWO days?

We may have struck an area where we thought those responsible were, but there's just NO way we could know well enough to justify these statements coming out of the Pentagon.