the details are not clear, but it was one heck of a firefight as we learned here at the pentagon when officials told us that when two medevac helicopters, air force medevac helicopters approached the scene, one was waved off because of heavy ground fire, and a second one on the landing, apparently its rotor clipped a wall of some kind, so it's damaged, cannot be removed from the scene. but there's still some question as to why those special operations forces were involved in a combat operation. and those answers have not yet been satisfactorily provided. and this comes on the heels of a pentagon report that said that the security situation there in afghanistan has significantly deteriorated ever since last january when u.s. combat forces were taken off the battlefield. and a report only a week ago that said that the taliban and even al qaeda now occupy more