Forces kill Taliban who downed U.S. helicopter

WASHINGTON - The top commander in Afghanistan says international forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for downing a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend.

Marine Corps Gen. John Allen told a Pentagon news conference Wednesday that forces learned where the insurgents had fled to and killed them in an early Monday morning air strike.

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A separate statement to the media from Afghanistan said the strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the rocket-propelled grenade that downed the Chinook helicopter.

Gen. Allen told CBS News National Security correspondent David Martin that the unnamed target of U.S. and Afghan forces in the devastating Chinook crash was not among those killed in Monday's strike.