SUNDAY 19 JULY 2009
NATO: At Least 16 Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash
by: Agence France-Presse
Kabul - At least 16 civilians were killed on Sunday when a helicopter crashed near a military base in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said, in the second fatal chopper crash here in a week.
The civilian-contracted aircraft was not shot down by insurgents, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said, but gave no details on what caused the crash in war-torn Kandahar province.
by: John Nichols, The Nation
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The initial progress came at the provincial level, led by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's Tommy Douglas when he served from 1941 to 1960 premier of Saskatchewan. The universal, publicly-funded "single-payer" health care system that Douglas and his socialist allies developed in Saskatchewan proved to be so successful and so popular that it was eventually adopted by other provinces and, ultimately, by Canada's federal government.
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by: Peter Graff and Hamid Shalizi, Reuters
Editor's Note: This account of the crash of a US military aircraft in Afghanistan by Reuters examines official US military statements and other accounts of the incident. Special attention is given to the possibility that the aircraft crashed as a result of hostile fire. This article does not make a final determination on that point. One aspect that is not taken into consideration in this report is why both crew members of what the US military calls a "fighter jet" were killed in the crash. Such aircraft are equipped with crew evacuation systems. »
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