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Early in 1965, the president decided to launch operation rolling thunder, a sustained bombing campaign directed against north vietnam. >> the emphasis is on the destruction of strategic enemy target. they will cut off supplies to the north from the rebels in the south. >> our first mission was more or less static defense of the principle air field for the bombing missions over north vietnam. >> general, will this entail any offensive operations? >> no, no, i dont believe it will. >> the reason w...

Ready for an emergency landing there was a weight imbalance and is the bomber began to break up over north carolina and the centrifugal forces of the bomber breaking up pulled a lanyard in the cockpit, exactly the same a crew member would pull if a bomb was to be delivered over an enemy target and one of the hydrogen bombs assumed it was over an enemy target and went through all the arming steps, except one. and it was one switch in that plane that prevented a debt nation of a 4 megaton hide gen...

out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession. end quote. christine romans has been crunching the numbers in new york. its a hard report to spin, christine. >> it really is. you cant spin it. 69,000 jobs created in the biggest economy in the world. that is really disappointing, half what they thought. 8.2% is the unemployment rate. it went up a little bit, because, keira, more people were getting into the labor market. theyve been discouraged in months past, trying to ge...

>> he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i cant tell. >> what do you think? >> really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. >> thats what a lot of people suspect. all right. lets talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now youve had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, theyre conce...

Country. i want you to check out this video from a british fire jet over northern libya. youre seeing what the crew saw as they take him and blast away an enemy target. this video shows missions against moammar gadhafis forces in ajdabiya and also misrata. libyan rebels are advancing westward and taking control of two key cities. the opposition said gadhafis force retreated from ras lanuf and rebel fighters appear to have seized the oil town of brega. defense secretary of robert gates is accusin...