Thursday, June 11, 2009 RECIFE: The search in the Atlantic for more bodies and debris from a downed Air France jetliner is to continue until at least June 19, Brazilian officials said Wednesday."The search can continue at least up to the 19th (of June)" given currents in the area being scoured, air force spokesman Brigadier Ramon Cardoso told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife. "That's the time with the currents that are there... still give the possibility of recovering bodies," he said. He added that the period may be extended if conditions permitted, and stressed that more bodies may yet be found. Brazilian and French navy crews have so far recovered 41 bodies from the search area 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) off Brazil's coast. The Air France plane was carrying 228 people when it crashed June 1 as it was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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