MMC
03-14-2012, 05:47 PM
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is safe after a stolen truck rushed onto an airfield runway ramp around the time his plane was landing in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, Pentagon officials and journalists traveling with him report.
"A stolen truck sped onto a runway ramp at the British military airfield as his plane was landing," the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/world/asia/panetta-visits-afghanistan-following-massacre.html), who is traveling with Panetta, reported. "Mr. Panetta was unhurt, but Pentagon officials said the Afghan driver emerged from the vehicle in flames."
Panetta was flying into the British air base in Helmand province when the incident occurred.
Panetta arrived on an unannounced trip in Afghanistan (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/panetta-arrives-afghanistan-uk-david-cameron-says-war-133521529.html) Wednesday to try to defuse tensions in the wake of the shooting rampage Sunday, allegedly by a U.S. staff sergeant, that killed 16 Afghan men, women and children.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/panetta-safe-truck-charges-helmand-airfield-while-plane-185428063.html
Seems someone knew that Panetta was arriving on an Unannounced Visit. Now I wonder who tipped the Taliban off.....eh Karzai??? :angry:
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is safe after a stolen truck rushed onto an airfield runway ramp around the time his plane was landing in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, Pentagon officials and journalists traveling with him report.
"A stolen truck sped onto a runway ramp at the British military airfield as his plane was landing," the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/world/asia/panetta-visits-afghanistan-following-massacre.html), who is traveling with Panetta, reported. "Mr. Panetta was unhurt, but Pentagon officials said the Afghan driver emerged from the vehicle in flames."
Panetta was flying into the British air base in Helmand province when the incident occurred.
Panetta arrived on an unannounced trip in Afghanistan (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/panetta-arrives-afghanistan-uk-david-cameron-says-war-133521529.html) Wednesday to try to defuse tensions in the wake of the shooting rampage Sunday, allegedly by a U.S. staff sergeant, that killed 16 Afghan men, women and children.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/panetta-safe-truck-charges-helmand-airfield-while-plane-185428063.html
Seems someone knew that Panetta was arriving on an Unannounced Visit. Now I wonder who tipped the Taliban off.....eh Karzai??? :angry: