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FILM TRAILER – How They Lied When Pat Tillman Died

Film trailer is at the bottom of the story.  This is a 1-minute clip of Kevin Tillman's testimony before Congress. Veteran's Today It's been 8 years since Pat Tillman’s assassination in Afghanistan.  On April 22, 2004 Tillman and several other Army Rangers were given an odd order to split their motorized squad and proceed toward a village called Magarah. The original mission was to recover a broken-down Hum ...

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In Historic First China Begins Oil Extraction In Afghanistan

In a surprising (if not quite shocking) move, late on Friday Canada blocked Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s C$5.2 billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. saying the bid by the Malaysian state-owned company "wasn’t in Canada’s national interests." As BusinessWeekexplains, "in what investors say is a test case for the $15.1 billion bid by CNOOC Ltd. of China for Calgary-based Nexen Inc., the Canadian go ...

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Video Shows Drunk, Stoned U.S. Security Contractors in Afghanistan [VIDEO]

Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News Cellphone video recorded earlier this year at an operations center of a U.S. defense contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan appears to show key personnel staggeringly drunk or high on narcotics, in what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. ...

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Deadline Dismissed: US Wants Troops To Remain In Afghanistan After 2014

The United States’ post-9/11 actions in Afghanistan have already earned the operation the distinction of being America’s longest-running war, and promises on the verge of being shattered could cause an expected end to be still a ways in the future. Despite repeated pleas from US President Barack Obama to conclude the war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, a leading official with the State Department tells r ...

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