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That were -- are directly linked. they are al qaeda. who essentially planned and led the event. let's remember the key points here, you had 200 trucks mobilized to go do the attack. you had mortars. this is one thing they've glossed over so far in the article, i'm not sure what will come in the book. the mortar attack to the annex was precise. they put four rounds on to a target that the best u.s. marine corps mortarman would love to have. this was not spontaneous. this guy was but one of the rebel who was part of the organization but it was clearly al qaeda led and executed. >> i guess that's...

So what they need to determine now, did the six members die in the crash? or is it possible, possible, that they were alive when they hit the ground, that there was a mortar attack, and that they perished in that? investigators are talking to members of another helicopter that was flying in the immediate vicinity. they are trying to see what they can learn. we are told from the one survivor of the crash six u.s. military families, terrible news on this holiday season. but this has been a big issue up and down the pentagon hallways all day, anderson. constant meetings about what did happen, and...

These are the kind of claims they often make. most of the time obviously not true. propaganda. but this is also raising the question clearly was this claim that they shot it down related to the report that it came under a mortar attack? >> and this comes at a backdrop of afghan president hamid karzai refusing to sign an agreement with the white house over long-term troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: that's right. there are now 42,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. they want to get this agreement for a number of troops, probably about 10,000,to remain after the end of 2014. the job of the u.s. tr...

Question clearly was this claim that they shot it down related to the report that it came under a mortar attack? >> and this comes at a backdrop of afghan president hamid karzai refusing to sign an agreement with the white house over long-term troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: that's right. there are now 42,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. they want to get this agreement for a number of troops, probably about 10,000,to remain after the end of 2014. the job of the u.s. troops will be to help train and assist afghan forces and do the very dangerous work of continuing to go after terrorist targe...

Incident for americans in began stan since the summer last year. a black hawk helicopter down. it happen in southern afghanistan. even though we don't have a full picture, it's beginning to come into focus. barbara starr, what do you know. >> good evening, anderson. at this hour military investigators are trying to fir gur what happened. the helicopter, the black hawk went down due to mechanical failure but once it hit the ground, were any of those six military members still alive? they are looking at a report that the helicopter once crashed came under mortar fire from taliban forces in the i...