Afghan who crashed truck where Panetta landed dies

[Tx4obama]

Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan man who crashed a stolen truck at an airfield as U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's plane was landing there has died of his injuries.

U.S. Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparotti, the deputy commander of American forces in Afghanistan, told reporters traveling with Panetta that the man died on Thursday morning of severe burns.

Scaparotti says the man apparently had a container of fuel in the car, which ignited during the crash Wednesday at the British airfield in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

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[midnight]

1. Clearly we have over stayed our welcome... We need to leave..

[Kolesar]

2. Damn. If he was alive he could have "talked"

I'm glad Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is ok.

[jwirr]

3. This helps to explain why the listeners to his speech were disarmed before they entered the tent.

The 200 Marines who were disarmed was just so that there was no discrimination. In order to understand what I just said one must have read the op from yesterday but I do not know how to link it.