Car aflame as Panetta visits Afghanistan, talks death penalty after shootings
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 2:52PM 
(Mar. 28, 2011) A U.S. Special Forces Soldier, assigned to Special Operations Task Force - South in southern Afghanistan, provides security overwatch during an assault on an insurgent position late in the evening in Kandahar province's Maiwand district. ((U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Devon Popielarczyk)Very little official information has been released about the alleged shootings in Panjwai on Sunday, one reason perhaps for U.S. Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta to travel to Camp Bastion on Wednesday. The camp was built as a British facility in 2006 in Helmand Province.
About the time Panetta arrived, ITN.com said a car reportedly burst into flames on the runway.
The media service for the International Security Assistance Force issued two brief statements on the ISAF Twitter feed updating the incident:
