American Plane Hit By Pakistani Militants

A suspected US unmanned spy plane crashed Tuesday in a troubled Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan where Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are active, officials said. The drone came down near the frontier village of Angoor Adda in the tribal district of South Waziristan, the scene of several recent missile strikes by American drones, a senior Pakistani security official said. "A pilotless spy plane, we believe it is US, crashed in Pakistani territory but it did not disintegrate. Tribesmen picked it up and then Pakistani security forces retrieved it," the official added.