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Underscoring the instability in Afghanistan, an Afghan man in a stolen pickup truck sped onto the tarmac as a plane
carrying U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was about nike-air-jordan.org... to land
on Wednesday, an extraordinary security breach in a southern province next to where Sunday's massacre took place.
No one on board the military plane carrying Panetta was hurt when it landed at a British base in Helmand province.
Defence officials played down the incident nike-air-max-pascher.org..., saying the
Pentagon chief was never in danger.
The pickup nike-air-max-pascher.net... truck crashed into a ditch after it sped
across the runway ramp and the driver, whose motives were unclear, emerged from the vehicle in flames.
He was being treated for burns, a Pentagon spokesman said, and a member of the NATO-led coalition was also hurt when the
vehicle was stolen.
Panetta arrived for his nike-air-max90.net... unannounced visit three days after the
massacre in neighboring Kandahar province. Although Panetta's trip was planned before the shooting, it comes as Afghan
civilians and lawmakers alike demand answers.
Foremost among those demands is that the soldier responsible be tried in Afghanistan over the shooting, one of the worst
of its kind since air-max-soldes.net... U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban
in 2001 for harboring the al Qaeda masterminds of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Despite those calls acheternikechaussures.org..., the U.S. staff sergeant
who gave himself up after the villagers, including nine children and three women, were killed has been flown out of
Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
The New York Times, citing an unidentified senior U.S. official, said the soldier had been flown to Kuwait. CNN also
reported the sergeant had been taken there.
The commander of U.S. and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, made the decision based on a legal
recommendation, a U.S. official said.
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