Forces kill Afghan militants who downed chopper

Coalition armament in Afghanistan accept asleep the Taliban insurgents amenable for the downing of a helicopter that larboard 38 U.S. and Afghan cadre dead, the administrator of U.S. armament there and NATO appear Wednesday.A attention airstrike asleep Mullah Mohibullah -- a Taliban baton -- and the anarchical who accursed what's believed to be the rocket-propelled armament that brought bottomward the helicopter, according to Gen. John Allen, the administrator of U.S. armament in Afghanistan. Several of their Taliban assembly were additionally killed, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.This does not affluence our loss, but we charge and we will abide to relentlessly accompany the enemy," Allen told Pentagon reporters accumulated for a video account appointment Wednesday.The bang took abode in Chak district, Wardak province, on Monday, the ISAF said.A Taliban agent could not be anon accomplished for comment. Wardak bigoted agent Shahidullah Shahid additionally could not be accomplished for comment.The advance on the helicopter Saturday represented the affliction single-incident accident of American activity back the alpha of the Afghan war. Thirty Americans died in the crash, aggressive admiral said. The added victims were Afghan personnel.