AFGHANISTAN: Image from Qatar-based Al Jazeera television aired on Oct. 22, 2001, which is reported to show the remains of a US military helicopter allegedly shot down near Kandahar by Taliban forces on Saturday. Only the landing gear, marked Boeing and CH-47, is shown in the footage but the Boeing CH-47 is the official designation of the Chinook transport helicopter. No independent verification is available of the event and the Pentagon deny it has lost a helicopter in Afganistan. —AP/PTI