{"id":26146,"date":"2011-08-10T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26146"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:12:54","slug":"coalition-forces-kill-taliban-who-shot-down-chopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26146","title":{"rendered":"Coalition forces kill Taliban who shot down chopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/isaf-forces-conduct-airstrike-against-insurgents-responsible-for-downing-ch-47-1.151723\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that coalition forces have killed the Taliban insugents who are responsible for downing the CH-47 and killing members of the Special Operations Quick Reaction Force last week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the shot that downed the helicopter were killed in an airstrike on Tuesday in the Chak district of Wardak, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Mohibullah was a key facilitator in an insurgent attack cell led by Din Mohammad, a Taliban leader killed in a previous Special Operations mission, the International Security Assistance Force release states. As a leader in Mohammad\u2019s network in Tangi valley, Mohibullah had as many as 12 Taliban fighters under his command, including potential suicide bombers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>After an exhaustive manhunt, Special Operations forces located Mullah Mohibullah and the shooter after receiving multiple intelligence leads and tips from local citizens. The two men were attempting to flee the country in order to avoid capture.<\/p>\n<p>The security force located and followed the insurgents to a wooded area in Chak district. After ensuring no civilians were in the area, the force called for the airstrike which resulted in the deaths of the Mullah Mohibullah, the shooter, and several of their Taliban associates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they were tired when they died.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that coalition forces have killed the Taliban insugents who are responsible for &hellip; <a title=\"Coalition forces kill Taliban who shot down chopper\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26146\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coalition forces kill Taliban who shot down chopper<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}