The Australian Special Air Service Regiment had the insurgents on the run. On the night of June 10 2010 as the Taliban shifted its defence west in the Shah Wali Kot Valley of southern Afghanistan Special Operations Command at Multi National Base Tarin Kot sixty-three kilometres north gathered intelligence. Next morning Blackhawk helicopters of the US 101st “No Mercy” Aviation Regiment dropped an assault force of roughly twenty elite SAS operators in three patrols from 2 Squadron outside the village of Tizak. They were to “kill or capture” the Taliban leaders there.