it's the 1st time the us as in touch, the shut down the aircraft of the nato. ella alan fisher reports from washington. it started as a tucked each military operation. it ended with governments into capitals making argent phone calls. the talk is military was conducting airstrikes and has sucka and city a targeting car. despite those of the y p g group, the operation was ordered after the technician tv administrative was targeted by a suicide bomber on sunday. but american troops to commit just to cover as a non chucky store and came within one kilometer of their positions. when calls between the capitals failed to hold the operation on the joint move to just 500 meters awaiting us. j shorted doug the 1st time and need to a member is attacked one of its allies, us commanders assessed at the u. a. b, which was now less than a half kilometers from us, forces to be a potential threat. and us of 16 fighters subsequently shut down the u. a. b in self defense, approximately 1140 local time. it's important to point out that no us forces were injured during the incident. we have no indication