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Come under assault. just, you know, just this weekend the artillery that was fired came within 100 meets of that position. i have myself spoke to two senior u.s. officials who say that they believe that that was no mistake. that that was -- that that was in fact intended to intimidate urs forces in order to get the last little batch of americans in this part of the world to pull out so that turkey can have free reign to do what it wishes. >> so what you're saying is they deliberately fired at u.s. troops there in order to have them leave? >> that is what -- yes. that is what two u.s. officials...

City where you have to pinpoint the target. either by grid coordinates where you're saying this is the location on the map, hit this target, or you're doing what's called laser spotting, where you actually do a laser point to the building and the weapon actually fires to that laser spot on the building. and then you don't know really sometimes if there are iraqi fighters on top of lthe buildin. i've seen this multiple times with al qaeda, they'll be on top of the building and put a lot of civilians inside the building so if they get hit, the fighters get hit, they can use the damage and the ki...

On the ground, that u.s. forces wanted to direct an imminent threat. that was one of the problems, proceedual problems, because this location was incorrectly identified. aboard the aircraft it was being identified by physical appearance and description rather than the grid coordinates. doctors without borders are saying that this opens up more questions than it does actually answer issues here. they say that this is a catalog of errors, a violation of the wars laws of war, is what they're saying. they are questioning that this investigation is essentially gotten to the bottom of it here. they ...

Life. the aircraft was positively identified at approximately 1:50 p.m. today, eight miles north of charikot. the wreckage was found at approximately 11000 feet in extremely dense forest and exceptionally rugged terrain. our nepalese partners originally discovered what they thought to be evidence of an aircraft mishap while they were flying patrols in this area in their helicopters. as soon as we were made aware of their first reports, we immediately diverted u.s. helicopters that were already in the air to the grid coordinates that they had provided by to us. at this time, i'm not able to pos...