U.S. Aircraft Crash in Afghanistan Remains Mystery
An American military aircraft was reported to have crashed only 6.2 miles from a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan. The United States military said there were no indications that the crash was caused by enemy fire. A journalist in the area named Tariq Ghazniwal corresponded with The Associated Press on twitter, saying he saw two bodies and the front of the aircraft was badly burned. Ghazniwal also said local Taliban were protecting the crash site and additional militants were searching for two people believed to have survived the crash. The Associated Press could not independently verify his account, which