Taliban Shootdown Forces Chinook Rethink

Three days after the Taliban used a grenade launcher to shoot down a Chinook military helicopter in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is now reconsidering landing the crafts in battle zones, McClatchy reports. The Chinook is vulnerable and slow during landings, exposing...

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Pentagon Bans Coverage of Slain US Soldiers

The Pentagon announced on Monday they will not allow any media coverage of the arrival of the remains of the 30 dead soldiers killed in this Saturday’s helicopter shootdown in Afghanistan. In 2009, President Barack Obama lifted an 18-year ban on media access to the...

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NATO Attack on Libyan TV Station Condemned

The head of the U.N. agency that oversees press freedom sharply criticized NATO on Monday for its criminal July 30 airstrikes against Libyan state television that killed several people and wounded nearly a dozen. "I deplore the NATO strike on Al-Jamahiriya and its...

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