Biden's Copter Crash

FIGHTING JOE BIDEN

Hand to Hand With bin Laden

“ "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." [Biden, to the National Guard Association today, talking about the war in Afghanistan.] ” Jake Tapper has The Story Behind Biden's Emergency Helicopter Landing in 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. "The weather closed in on us," Kerry told the AP at the time in a phone interview from Turkey. "It went pretty blind, pretty fast and we were around some pretty dangerous ridges. So the pilot exercised his judgment that we were better off putting down there, and we all agreed...We sat up there and traded stories." 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." ” Note: Kerry later nominated himself for a Purple Heart. That's what I heard.