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Nato air attack on Pakistani troops was self-defence, says senior western official (Pakistan Says They Were Attacked First)

An attack by Nato aircraft on Pakistani troops that allegedly killed as many as 28... more

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SD Sailor Killed By Drone 'Friendly Fire'

The death of San Diego sailor Benjamin D. Rast in Afghanistan last week may have been... more

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Libyan Rebels Hit by NATO Friendly Fire Airstrike - 13 Dead

BENGHAZI, Libya – A NATO airstrike intended to thwart Moammar Gadhafi's... more

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2 Contractors Mistakenly Killed by NATO Forces in Afghanistan

NATO forces attacked and killed a pair of private security contractors last night in... more

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DND, families of dead soldiers say leaked friendly-fire report is wrong - thestar.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5HRuGnAuU4&feature=channel OTTAWA—The... more

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News: New video fresh from Afghanistan. Rachel Maddow reports on Brits leaving and "friendly fire" incident

Together with MSNBC war correspondent Richard Engel, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reports... more

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News: Rachel Maddow and Richard Engel of MSNBC news report on today's "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan

Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is covering the war from Afghanistan and this is part 2 of her... more

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NFL Star Pat Tillman, Anti-War American Hero…Was EXECUTED! 3 M-16 Shots To His Face….VIDEO

New Evidence Clearly Indicates Pat Tillman Was Executed Army medical examiners... more

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News: Who killed Pat Tillman: Army lied about how former NFL star died in Afghanistan. Katie Couric reports

Pat Tillman left an NFL job paying him over $3 million a year to join the elite... more

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Gen. McChrystal's Credibility Problem

he man chosen by Barack Obama to lead the war in Afghanistan also helped cover up the... more

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REPORT: Officer Omar Edwards 06.02.09 (NYPD Friendly Fire)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - At wake services for Officer Omar Edwards of the New York Police... more

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NYPD seeks way to let guns 'talk' to one another

The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that... more

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US air raid kills Afghan soldiers

Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a US-led air raid in... more

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Friendly-Fire Cover Up Revealed by New Video

A recently released video taken by a soldier in Iraq reveals that the friendly-fire... more

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Friendly fire in Iraq -- and a coverup | Salon News

Helmet-cam footage from Ramadi, Iraq (12-min. edited version). Warning: Contains graphic violence and profanity.

Once a cop, always a cop. Asked if she wanted to see a graphic battle video showing her son Albert bleeding to death, Jean Feggins, retired from the Philadelphia Police Department, said yes.

"Listen, I've moved dead bodies of people I don't even know," she told me, as she sat on a brown couch in the den of her West Philadelphia row house. "I need to know everything. Because he is not a stranger. That's my baby. That's my child."

When Pfc. Albert Nelson died in Iraq in 2006, the Army first told Feggins that he might have been killed by friendly fire, and then that it was enemy mortars. She says she never believed the Army's explanation. "I always felt like they were lying to me," she said. "I could never prove it."

"I would ask the casualty officer what was going on. I'd be told they are still working on the report," she said. "They were still doing their investigation. What could I do? It's the U.S. military. I had no control."

She did not know that there was a video of his death until I contacted her recently. Salon has obtained evidence -- including a graphic, 52-and-a-half minute video -- suggesting that friendly fire from an American tank killed two U.S. soldiers in Ramadi, Iraq, in late 2006, and that the Army ignored the video and other persuasive data in order to rule that the deaths were due to enemy action. Feggins watched the video with me in her den.

Shot from the perspective of the soldiers taking fire from what they clearly believe is an American tank, the footage shows how Pfc. Albert Nelson and Pfc. Roger Suarez-Gonzalez died. It also records soldiers trying to save Nelson's life, and the sound of a platoon sergeant attempting to report over a radio that the casualties were due to friendly fire. He then seems to be overruled by a superior officer who insists it was an enemy mortar attack. Troops from Nelson's unit interviewed by Salon, including three soldiers there that day, blamed friendly fire from a U.S. tank for the deaths. "A tank shot us," said a soldier. "That is what happened."

An Army investigation, however, found the deaths were caused by enemy fire. Soldiers from Nelson and Suarez's platoon, based at Fort Carson, Colo., described what they felt was pressure from above to accept this official story despite evidence to the contrary -- including the video, which has circulated widely. Jean Feggins, after watching the video, said it was more evidence that the Army had misled her about the circumstances of her son's death. The Army told Feggins that her son had died instantly, while the video shows a painfully protracted attempt to get Nelson to a field hospital before he bled to death.

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The only reason there is a video of what happened in Ramadi is because Sgt. 1st Class Jack Robison, who was there that day, wanted to record a firefight. The video, which is all from the point of view of Robison's helmet camera, begins immediately before the shell's impact. It records the explosion, the effort to help the wounded -- in bloody detail -- and long patches of conversation in which the soldiers present describe how they were shot by an American tank.

(more at the link)Helmet-cam footage from Ramadi, Iraq (12-min. edited version). Warning: Contains... more

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Carly Fiorina's Friendly Fire

Carly Fiorina has become my favorite surrogate for Sen. John McCain's... more

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Television The Drug of the Nation

Was this guy ahead of his time, or right on time? "Television is the new GOD"

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US-led forces killed 9 Afghan police in 'friendly fire'

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police... more

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Nine British troops injured in 'friendly fire' in Afghanistan

The MoD has confirmed nine troops were injured when an UK Apache helicopter opened... more

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US airstrike kills 22 civilians in Afghanistan

The Military is insistent that they hit a military target whilst the province's... more

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