December 3, 2002	Tuesday	Ramazan 27,1423

SRINAGAR, Dec 2: The United States ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, arrived in Srinagar on Monday for a fact-finding tour.

The envoy was accompanied by several senior officials of the US embassy in New Delhi.

The officials flew into Srinagar’s high-security airport in a special US air force plane, from where they were flown to the Indian army’s Srinagar headquarters in an army helicopter.

Blackwill was briefed at army headquarters by senior officers, including Lt Gen V.G. Patankar concerning the situation along the Line of Control.—AFP