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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban claim helicopter kill |
| 2006-05-07 |
| The Taliban claim to have shot down a US helicopter in Afghanistan, killing all those on board. An Aljazeera correspondent in Afghanistan said Muhamad Hanif, a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed that his movement had brought down the US Chinook. The US-led forces said the 10 multinational force soldiers on board were all killed, but denied that the Chinook, which crashed near the Pakistan border, had been brought down by the Taliban. "We have no indication that that happened," said a spokeswoman responding to Hanif's claim. "The crash occurred in a very mountainous terrain and the landing zone was very difficult. It was a mountain-top landing zone. There were various weather factors that could have come into play ... There were high winds. We are investigating any possible causes for the accident but there were no enemy actions detected at the scene." |
| Posted by:Fred |