not in terms of people involved in rescue or anything like that," Di Rita said. On Wednesday, Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi, whose information has often been unreliable, said the guerrillas killed seven U.S. "spies" in the area before shooting down the helicopter with "a new type of weapon" he did not describe. U.S. officials say those on board the Chinook, a Special Forces variant of the U.S. military's CH-47 twin-rotor workhorse, included elite U.S. Navy Seal commandos. --More 2253 Local Time 1953 GMT
