American botched rescue attempt

  • 14 years ago
11th October 2010. A British aid worker may have died when U.S. special forces lobbed a grenade in a frantic bid to save her from the Taliban. Linda Norgrove, 36, was fatally wounded when U.S. troops stormed the compound where she was being held hostage. It was initially thought she died when her captors blew-up a suicide vest. But today Prime Minister David Cameron said a review of the Navy SEALs' rescue operation had uncovered a new 'deeply distressing development' suggesting a grenade detonated by taskforce members may have been to blame. The commander General David Petraeus informed Downing Street this morning that a review of the botched rescue had uncovered shocking new information.

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