Pakistan returns US helicopter from bin Laden raid
By REUTERS
WASHINGTON - Pakistan has returned to the United States wreckage of a US helicopter destroyed during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday, but the gesture was expected to do little to improve strained ties.The US Navy SEAL team that stormed bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2 blew up the chopper after it was damaged during a hard landing. They wanted keep sensitive US technology out of enemy hands.But bits of the helicopter, including the tail section, remained behind and the United States demanded that Pakistan return them to US custody."It (the wreckage) was returned over the weekend and is now back in the United States," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said.
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