United States Army and NATO officials say that the Taliban and insurgents who killed 38 American and Afghan troops flying on a Chinook helicopter have been killed in an airstrike. Many of the fallen Americans were members of Navy Seal Team Six, which killed Osama Bin Laden.
From BBC:
“The strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the shot associated with the August 6th downing of the CH-47 helicopter,” the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) statement said.
But Isaf did not specify whether it was Taliban fire that had brought down the Chinook in Wardak province, west of Kabul.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday, [General John Allen, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan] said international forces learned where the insurgents had fled to, sought them out and killed them.
“We dealt with them in a kinetic strike,” Mr Allen said.
