President Barack Obama’s new choice to lead US operations in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, suspected that former football star Pat Tillman had been killed by friendly fire but approved a Silver Star regardless.
McChrystal’s activities as head of Special Operations are shrouded in secrecy. The unit as a whole is so clandestine that the Pentagon won’t disclose the number of troops involved, the names of commanders, its bases or specific missions.
Francisco Galicia paced his cell at Fort Hunter Liggett, a vast army base 160 miles south...
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The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific...
