The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, says that coalition forces have killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a US helicopter over the weekend. The crash killed 38 US and Afghan soldiers.
General John Allen, Marine Corps, said, «With respect to the enemy specifically, all of these operations generate intelligence. And the intelligence that was generated both from activity on the objective, but also the activity of those who sought to flee from the objective, gave us significant certainty of who they were. We tracked them, as we would in the aftermath of any operation, and we dealt with them in a kinetic strike and in the aftermath of that we have achieved certainty that they in fact were killed in that strike.»
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said that among those killed in Monday’s air strike were Taliban leader, Mullah Mohibullah, and the insurgent who fired the rocket-propelled grenade at the helicopter. It said intelligence gained on the ground provided a high degree of confidence that the insurgent who fired the grenade was the person killed.
Source: CNTV