KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A China-bound Afghan passenger flight was sent back to Afghanistan because it had failed to obtain the proper documents required to land, not because of a bomb or hijack threat, an Afghan air traffic source and airport police source said. China's Xinhua news agency had reported that Chinese authorities suspected the flight had been threatened by a bomb. But the air traffic source in Kabul and the airport police source in Kandahar said there was no such threat. The plane, from Afghanistan's KamAir airline, had departed from Kabul but landed in the southern city of Kandahar on its return because of high winds in Kabul, the sources said. (Reporting by Ismail Sameem in KANDAHAR and Sayed Salahuddin in KABUL; writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
Two Afghan boys watch a U.S. soldier of Gator Company, 2-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade as he keeps watch during a dawn patrol in the Pesh Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province August ...
