Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2006 18:09:37 GMT -6
Rumsfeld:U.S. not going anywhere
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By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
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July 12. 2006 8:00AM
Rumsfeld said the U.S. military, which now has about 23,000 troops in the country, will remain part of the NATO-led security force that is due to take command in the U.S.-controlled south in coming weeks. He would not say whether U.S. troop levels would go up or down in the short term.
Later Rumsfeld flew by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to Kandahar, the southern city that had been a traditional stronghold of the Taliban, which sheltered Osama bin Laden until the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
Hours earlier, an MH-47 helicopter leaving the scene of a joint U.S.-Afghan Army raid was apparently forced to make a controlled crash landing after coming under fire by small arms.
Officials said it was not clear whether the helicopter was shot down, but it was so badly damaged while crash landing that it was deemed beyond repair and was destroyed by a U.S. airstrike. No one aboard was injured.
(Excerpt)
By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
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July 12. 2006 8:00AM
Rumsfeld said the U.S. military, which now has about 23,000 troops in the country, will remain part of the NATO-led security force that is due to take command in the U.S.-controlled south in coming weeks. He would not say whether U.S. troop levels would go up or down in the short term.
Later Rumsfeld flew by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to Kandahar, the southern city that had been a traditional stronghold of the Taliban, which sheltered Osama bin Laden until the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
Hours earlier, an MH-47 helicopter leaving the scene of a joint U.S.-Afghan Army raid was apparently forced to make a controlled crash landing after coming under fire by small arms.
Officials said it was not clear whether the helicopter was shot down, but it was so badly damaged while crash landing that it was deemed beyond repair and was destroyed by a U.S. airstrike. No one aboard was injured.
