U.S. Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said coalition troops have killed the Taliban militants responsible for the deadly downing of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Aug. 6.
Intelligence “gave us significant certainty who they were,” Allen told reporters at the Pentagon today via video link from Afghanistan.
An air strike from an F-16 fighter jet about midnight on Aug. 8 killed Mullah Mohibullah, the leader of a Taliban cell in the Tangi Valley in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgent who fired the rocket-propelled grenade that struck the helicopter two nights earlier, Allen said. “Several” of their associates also were killed in the strike, the coalition said today in a statement.
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