New Antiterrorism Strategy forthoodsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forthoodsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
helicopter came to evacuate the wounded and a mortar round went off nearby that helicopter. the concern being that that mortar round damaged the helicopter, may have damaged the rotor blades so they re checking its ability to fly. u.s. military making clear that helicopter was not shot down. no one injured on board the helicopter, but prior to that there was a fire fight and one u.s. service member was killed in that fire fight. it s a reminder, john and kate, there is still a war going on in afghanistan. there are still thousands of u.s. troops there and they are still going on counterterror missions. there s been a lot of talk about how their role has changed. that they ve retreated to their bases, only doing security force protection, but the fact is they re doing counterterror operations as we saw today. those operations can be dangerous and deadly. a very harsh reminder of that. jim sciutto, thanks very much. let s bring in cnn military analyst, general james.