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...world by starting here. It was two such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to bring Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint. The results were predictable: Roni Bowers, 35, and Charity, her seven-month-old daughter, killed by the gunfire that forced the crash landing of their plane...
...things that astonished many Americans about the one-sided gun battle over the Amazon was the fact that a CIA jet had been working the skies, helping track the Cessna carrying Bowers and her baby. Though those flights were suspended last week as the U.S. investigated what had gone wrong, they are part of a significant U.S. presence in the region. On any given day in the past two or three years, it was possible to find U.S. air hardware in the skies over Colombia and Peru. The primary missions: helping local authorities demolish the "air bridge" that links Andean...
Saddam in a Cessna...
...Well even if we don't build it, they?re more likely to put a weapon of mass destruction in a Cessna or on a fishing boat or in a Ryder truck. The Pentagon knows that, but this has ceased to be a debate on the merits of devoting so much of our resources to a missile threat - it has become an article of faith. America has always been undefended against all sorts of threats. We determine our spending based on how imminent or plausible those threats are. We've always accepted some degree of risk because we?ve devoted...
Wars invariably claim innocent casualties, and the war on drugs is no exception. The tragic shooting down by Peru's air force of a Cessna bearing U.S. missionaries was a classic case of what the military might call "collateral damage" - innocents killed in the course of a military operation gone awry...