Ill-fated Mission Targeted Taliban Leader, Officials Say-cnbnews.net

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011 – An ill-fated Aug. 6 mission that ended in the deaths of 38 Afghan and U.S. service members when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed was targeting a Taliban leader in the Sayyidabad district of Afghanistan\’s Wardak province, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command officials reported today.

The helicopter reportedly was fired on by an insurgent rocket-propelled grenade while transporting the U.S. service members and Afghan commandos to the scene of an engagement between ISAF and insurgent forces, officials said.