General Colt never said that the Army did not recover the black box when he began getting questions about it, nor did he say that no black box was on Extortion 17. It also disappeared mysteriously, from the Executive Summary of the Colt Report… This glaring omission, in and of itself, is enough to raise suspicion.” He writes, “The black box did not just disappear from the wreckage of Extortion 17. Commander and former Navy JAG officer Don Brown points out in his book that the black box was absent from the Executive Summary. There was no black box recovered and no survivors from Extortion 17.įirst, take into account that Lt. This unidentified element was never interviewed for the Colt report.
They took it on the south and also had an OP set up on the high ground to the Southwest of the crash site.”īrown points out that the platoon leader’s claim of thirty minutes is “way off” and that the “unidentified element had already been on the ground for one hour and eleven minutes, had already begun to identify American bodies, and had already permitted a ‘coalition element’ to conduct a ‘survey of the aircraft’ in the field, and then disappear on an ‘unspecified road,’ all before the Pathfinders arrived.” We took security on the north end of the Wadi. So… from there I talked to was the GFC ]ground forces commander] at the time. The Lima Bravo element was already on scene, I think they beat us about 30 minutes. We moved parallel in the Wadi up to the khalat. I think it was 560 meters from our LZ to the crash site just would have been to the southeast. “Just when we touched down and LZ (landing zone) was just starting to get light sir, so we were still moving period of limited visibility. They finally arrived at 4:15 am local time.Īccording to testimony on page 3 of Exhibit 65, the Pathfinders platoon leader testified: In fact, what makes things even more suspicious is that the Pathfinders were not allowed to take off until after the unidentified unit had disappeared on an “unspecified road,” which was more than an hour after Extortion 17 went down. It’s also suspicious because a black box for Extortion 17 has yet to be recovered. This is suspicious as we documented previously that Brown had viewed three autopsy reports from three of those aboard Extortion 17 and they had bullets in their bodies. However, we don’t know what exactly they did there. We know from Enclosure H documents that there was an unidentified mystery unit (Lima Bravo) that were on the scene of the crash before US Army Pathfinders arrived. Understand that before the congressional hearing, testimony and documented evidence as to what took place following the shoot-down of Extortion 17 was already in hand. Among those things was the subject of Extortion 17’s black box.
In fact, it left us with more questions than answers, mainly because those who testified contradicted certain things. However, that hearing merely patronized the families without providing any real answers. Yet, they are more than aware of the media stories about the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden, whose death is attributed to the SEALs of SEAL Team Six.Īfter working tirelessly for nearly three years, families of the men killed on Extortion 17 finally got a congressional. One of the most bizarre indications that a cover up is going on concerning Extortion 17 is the helicopter’s missing black box recorder.Īs I have sought, along with others, to revive this story following the release of Don Brown’s book Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of Seal Team Six so that the families of those killed and the American people might get answers to the truth of what happened to that mission, it seems I find more and more people who have never even heard of Extortion 17. In a scandal bigger than Benghazi, in which 30 Americans lost their lives, including 17 Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six, the shoot-down of Extortion 17 continues to be masked by cover up.
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