Tewas, Komandan SEAL Team 6 yang Bunuh Osama bin Laden
Dead, Commander of SEAL Team 6 that Kill Osama bin Laden
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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SEORANG pelaut militer yang diidentifikasi oleh media Amerika Serikat sebagai komandan pasukan khusus Team 4 Navy SEAL meninggal dunia di Afghanistan, kata para pejabat militer.
Pentagon mengatakan bahwa Commander Job Price (42) tidak meninggal di medan perang, namun kematiannya tengah diselidiki penyidik.
Price yang berasal dari Pottstown, Pennsylvania, meninggal Sabtu lalu karena cedera yang tak berkaitan dengan pertempuran, saat membantu operasi pemantapan di Provinsi Uruzgan, Afghanistan, kata pernyataan resmi Departemen Pertahanan AS, seperti dilansir Huffington Post.
Pentagon menyatakan bahwa Price ditugaskan pada sebuah unit Perang Khusus Laut di Virginia Beach, Virginia.
NBC News melaporkan bahwa Price mengomandani SEAL Team 4, yang adalah satu dari delapan tim Navy SEAL.
SEAL Team 6 menjadi terkenal setelah menemukan dan membunuh pemimpin Alqaeda Osama bin Laden yang dituduh sebagai arsitek serangan 11 September 2001 ke Amerika Serikat.
A SAILOR identified by US media as the commanding officer of US Navy SEAL Team 4 has died in Afghanistan, military officials said Sunday.
The Pentagon said Commander Job Price, 42, did not die in combat, and that his death is under investigation.
Price, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, died Saturday of a "non-combat related injury while supporting stability operations in (central) Uruzgan province, Afghanistan," a Defense Department statement said.
It said Price was assigned to a Naval Special Warfare unit in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
NBC News reported that Price commanded SEAL Team 4, one of eight SEAL team deployments.
SEAL Team 6 became famous after finding and killing Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who is accused of being the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
