First US ground mission a failure: report: “More than 100 US special troops which landed from helicopters in Kandahar’s western outskirts near Babashahi hill, found themselves in an area densely controlled by the Taliban and had to retreat without achieving the main goal of the operation to attack their secret airfield, the Interfax source said.” The Times of India On the other hand, there are reports that this action was a cover for a more covert special ops incursion.