A representative of an anti-Taliban Afghan Shiite Muslim faction in northeast Iran said US warplanes touched down for the first time in Afghanistan's Begram airport north of Kabul late Wednesday.
"On Wednesday, for the first time since the start of US and British air raids on Afghanistan, a number of US war planes landed in Begram," said Mohammad Mohaqeq, a member of the Hezb-i-Wahdat faction in the town of Mashhad, cited by the state IRNA news agency late Wednesday:
"These planes have used this airport, which has been taken by Islamic Unity Front, several times," he said without giving further details on the number or type of US warplanes -- AFP
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