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...Along with an estimated 200,000 Laotian Hmong, Vang Pao fled to the U.S. after America withdrew from Indochina in 1975 and communist forces took over Laos and Vietnam. Now, the 77-year-old ex-CIA operative, along with nine other Laotian-born Americans and a former U.S. Army ranger who served in Vietnam, is facing potential life imprisonment for purportedly trying to send Stinger missiles and other high-grade weapons to a handful of Hmong guerrillas back home who are fighting to overthrow the government...
...final conversation in January 2007, it was clear that the pressure on Bush was also weighing on Graham. He said he did not want to "take sides on this Iraq thing," but he kept returning to the war in our conversation, without mentioning that his grandson was an Army Ranger serving there. "I'm getting a little depressed about Iraq," Graham admitted at one point. "Think of what it is doing to Bush. There doesn't seem to be any way out." The President, he said, had reached out in recent months on different subjects, trying to arrange a White...
...shirt, blue jeans and a black motorcycle helmet when he and Jou left the family’s Rancho Santa Margarita home. Burgess, who was convicted on three counts of battery in 2002 and of performing a lewd act against a child in 2003, also owns a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup...
...park ranger at neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was killed by drug smugglers. Vehicle barriers, which allow animals to pass back and forth, are now in place along parts of the Arizona border. More are planned and will soon be protecting Cabeza Prieta. But drug smugglers have adapted and DiRosa said there has been an increase in backpacking gangs. On the Mexican side, conservationists face the same challenges - one large Mexican refuge has several clandestine airstrips operated by the cartels, which operate with impunity...
...icons spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain of command told a different story...