Thursday, September 10, 2009 MEXICO CITY: Some of the passengers from a hijacked Aero Mexico flight were seen leaving the plane Wednesday, witnesses said. Passengers have been freed from a hijacked airplane in Mexico City, but the crew remains aboard. Passenger Adriana Romero told media that all passengers have been released unharmed from the Cancun-to-Mexico City flight, Aero Mexico Flight 576, but the crew is still being held hostage. The airplane is sitting on the runway at Mexico City's international airport. The airport remains open. Mexican news media report the hijackers are three Bolivian citizens who are demanding to talk with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, though Romero says she saw only one hijacker.Mexican network TV says the plane was carrying 104 passengers. Mexican television shows police leading at least 5 handcuffed men from hijacked jetliner.
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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