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Stardate 20011006.0650 (On Screen): Apparently Taliban anti-aircraft gunners fired on a plane of unknown origin which flew over Kabul. It's described as silvery, slow-flying and very high altitude; it was almost certainly a U-2 spy plane, and it would not have been at any danger from AAA because it flies much too high for any gun to reach. They can only be brought down by large SAMs, and I doubt that the Taliban have any of those. I'm sure that the pilot was amused by all the gun flashes; he appears to have gone about his business (photorecon) and then left when he was finished. (discuss)

Update: How did the AP get this report?

Update: there seem to have been two of them and at least one was a remotely piloted vehicle.

Update: The Taliban admitted that the planes were outside the range of their guns.