Mr. Thornberry mr. Speaker, i want to start by thanking the 63 members of the Armed Services committee, not only for all of their work in putting this bill together but for the seriousness with which they take our duties under the constitution to help provide for the common defense. Our members dont always agree, but were able to work our way through our differences most of the time and think about the larger cause. You might say we sacrifice some of our individual differences or preferences in order to support the men and women who sacrifice so much for us. And i want to thank all the members of the house. Weve had a lot of members over the last two days who have come down to the floor and talked about their amendments. Who have and all of those amendments have helped make this bill a better bill. And thats the way that for 54 straight years congresses of majorities of both parties and president s of both parties have defense bill, a last year was a little iffy but its happened. There
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
I was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into t
Your weekend and when were going to see rain return coming up. Lisa, thank you, developing news now, the chp is investigating a threecar crash that killed two people. It happened just before 9 00 last night near castro valley. A black bmw tried to pass a car on canyon road just south of north canyon road. It crossed the double yellow lines and collided head on with a pickup truck. The driver and the front passenger were killed. The vehicle had to be cut apart by the Fire Department to try to render assistance to the driver and the passenger. A woman who was a passenger in the back seat of the bmw is in serious condition and so is the driver of of the pickup truck. The car that was being passed received minor damage. In san jose, a partially paralyzed woman was rushed out of a burning building. Neighbors are questioning why v he took me outside. Around noon people escaped three homes on fire in san jose. As it spread they took this cell phone video. I look at the flame and the roof all