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Goals down to tie slovenia in the world cup then totally got robbed on the third goal which got taken away from them. my favorite impossible becomes reality tale involves mr. impossible himself. illinois congressman and senate candidate mark kirk who has already distinguished himself by being caught telling at least ten different falsehoods about his military career. mr. kirk has claimed the navy named him intelligence officer of the year which did not happen. he also claimed that as a member of...

An explosion ripped through the ship, killing 46 of its crew members. seoul has not directly blamed the communist north, but suspicions have pointed in that direction. north korea denies involvement. and it was some hair-raising moments for the crew of a u.s. military helicopter that came under fire in afghanistan. the mh-60 made a control landing in helmand province after taking enemy fire. it was supporting a combined afghan assault force. another helicopter picked up the crew and returned t...

Senate bill as written now and mitch mcconnell weighed in this morning. >> for the president to mrit size it in the same speech in which he said we should depoliticize it and web ads trying to attack republicans on this issue, i thought he wanted us to have a bipartisan bill, thats what id like to have. >> the xous is encouraging democrats to drop the controversial 50 billion dollars bank liquidation fund republicans dont like, but the president is also ready to turn up the heat on senate republ...

>> jon, it went down, leaving this base, its a u.s. air force cv-22 tilt rotor, as you said, it crashed 7 miles from this base, killing four, injuring 16. within minutes of the crash, u.s. air force rescue birds from the 41st expeditionary rescue squad and pedros were on scene to evacuate the the wounded, 11 of those serious ly injured were treated by the army surgical deals and despite that taliban claim, there is no evidence whatsoever that that aircraft was hit by enemy fire. bottom line, its...

Sean is an american. hes trained by the u.s. army, but hes flying a russian aircraft. sean, tell our viewers what this aircraft is. >> this is a russian mi-17 helicopter. >> and why are we using these on these missions instead of american helicopters? >> these helicopters are a lot cheaper to come by, theyre easier to maintain. the parts are, however, being controlled by the russians, so its kind of hard to get parts. >> how many missions have you been on out here? >> i would say probably around...

Alongside soldiers in afghanistan where they face enemy fire daily. >> that is a stark reminder that nato is not now and neither should it be a talk shop nor renaissance weekend on steroids. it is a military alliance with real world responsibilities with life and death consequences. >> reporter: he also told the meeting that other offenses may perceive them as weak. and a landslide has killed five people. dozens are feared buried without heavy equipment available yet. villagers are digging thr...

Difficult task thats been put on us, put on the hands of these u.s. soldiers on the ground because they are under the tactical directive by general stanley mcchrystal. that directive is to reduce civilian casualties. if they think that a civilian is in a building that they know the taliban or the insurgency are there, theyre told to withhold from firing because of that. in fact, our camera woman, mary rogers, while she was filming, the snipers looking for enemy fighters in the city in the area, ...

Meet enemy fire when the sun came up. thats when the taliban started shooting, thats when we started running. the taliban has been sporadically firing at the u.s. marines here in the city of marjah. but the marines have been firing back as well. we do know that there have been taliban casualties. and right now the firing seems to have stopped for the moment. just a lull. we do expect more fighting in the evening time and tomorrow and in the coming days. in fact, two civilians who were injured ac...

She gjoins us by phone. atia, bring us up to speed on the progress so far. >> reporter: betty, its been a very, very long day of fighting. it all started at 2:00 a.m. when the first battalion regiment involved in this operation called moshtarak, it was from this team. they came in at 2:00 a.m. in the dark hours of night. they landed in a field, a farming field. it was a pretty rough terrain compared to what most people are used to. this is an area that has canals, that has irrigation systems. an...

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