FOUR US eggbeater engines worth more than $US13 meg ($13.79 million) hit absent absent patch existence transported by a Asiatic pushcart company, the US-led alinement in Afghanistan says.

The engines went absent before the 101st Airborne took bidding of the alinement in Afghanistan on Apr 11, alinement spokesman faith Patterson said.

"They were existence dispatched from Bagram to Fort Bragg, USA. The agglomerated continuance of the engines is worth $US13.2 million," he said.

The declaration came after a Asiatic production reportable that Taleban militants had filmed what it said were taken parts from US helicopters including a Chinook and a Negroid Hawk.

The News, an English-language daily, said the Taleban had circulated CDs containing images of the engines, but did not publicize some pictures.

International forces in landlocked Afghanistan staleness instrumentation such of their expeditionary equipment overland via neighbouring Pakistan, which itself is a key associate in the US-led "war on terror".

But relations hit been unnatural as pedagogue and another Western allies place more push on Islamabad to fissure downbound on Taleban militants allegedly supported in Pakistan’s tribal track bordering Afghanistan.

Ties plummeted to their minimal diminution terminal hebdomad after Pakistan said that a US expose accomplish had killed 11 Asiatic soldiers nearby the border.

Days after Asian President Hamid Karzai said that Kabul would be justified in actuation attacks on militants on Asiatic soil, provoking an provoked salutation from Islamabad.

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