From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 19:25:10 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 'US helicopter down' HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- BBC. 2 November 2001. 'US helicopter down.' An American helicopter has reportedly gone down in Afghanistan say Pentagon officials. First reports said that it was not immediately clear whether the helicopter was shot down or whether it went down due to bad weather. The crew of the downed aircraft are said to have been safely transferred to a second helicopter and taken out of Afghan territory. The incident came as attempts to increase the numbers of US special forces in Afghanistan were being thwarted by the weather. Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters in Washington that freezing rain had made it impossible to use helicopters to deploy the troops. "Within the last 24 hours it would be fair to report that the weather has been hampering our efforts," he said on Friday afternoon. His comments came a day after US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the US planned to significantly increase the numbers of American troops on the ground in Afghanistan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
