Taliban claims shootdown. US sez it ain't so
The Taliban claim to have shot down a US plane and the US admits that a helicopter went down. The crew was rescued and the craft destroyed.
The Taliban claimed to have shot down and destroyed an unidentified US aircraft west of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Several Taliban sources in Jalalabad said the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed in Char Bolak district of Balkh province, near the border with Uzbekistan. (AFP)
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-11-02 |