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Senators OK After Emergency Afghan Landing

Posted Feb 21, 08 4:54 PM CST in Politics,  US 

(Newser) – Helicopters transporting three US senators over mountains in Afghanistan were forced to make an emergency landing today due to a snowstorm, the Associated Press reports. US troops sent ground transportation for Democrats John Kerry and Joseph Biden and Republican Chuck Hagel, none of whom was injured, and returned them to Bagram Air Base. Their diplomatic tour has since continued to Ankara, Turkey.

The American troops were "terrific as always," Kerry's office said in a statement. The senators—all of whom serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Biden is chairman—are on a trip that included a stint in Pakistan to witness the parliamentary elections there on Monday, as well as India and Turkey, the Associated Press reports.

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From left, U.S. Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and John Kerry, D-Mass., visit a polling station to observe voting in parliamentary elections in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008....   (Associated Press)
U.S. senators, from left, John Kerry, D-Mass., Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speak during a media conference at a hotel in Islamabad, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Biden, chairman of the Senate...   (Associated Press)
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, second from left, stands with, from left, U.S. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday,...   (Associated Press)
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