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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: War

No coverage allowed for war dead return

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 8, 2011, 2:58 PM Aug 8, 2011
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There will be no media coverage when the bodies of 31 soldiers, killed in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan over the weekend, are returned to Dover Air Force Base.

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Computer security war “can’t be won”

David CazaresDavid Cazares July 13, 2011, 11:00 AM Jul 13, 2011
2

A Blaine man who hijacked his neighbor’s Wi-fi and then made threats to Joe Biden and distributed child pornography using his victim’s identity has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. It’s just one more nasty incident — albeit a very small one — in the long war between forces of good and evil online. Read more →

Brian Williams’ sacrifice

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2011, 12:31 PM Jul 6, 2011
9

Connie Scott, of Owatonna, Minn., would like the nation to be as proud of her son’s sacrifice for his country as her family is. She knows it’s not, however.

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The mystery of Farah Mohamed Beledi

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 7, 2011, 10:39 AM Jun 7, 2011

Beledi’s family doesn’t know how the Minneapolis man ended up a suicide bomber in Somalia. Why would they?

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News orgs trying to get Bin Laden photos

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 10, 2011, 10:51 AM May 10, 2011
3

The news media is trying to get the Osama bin Laden death photos, filing a Freedom of Information request to liberate them.

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Politics and ‘ground zero’

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 5, 2011, 1:45 PM May 5, 2011
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Was President Obama’s trip to New York a ‘victory lap?’

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The bin Laden storytelling

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 2, 2011, 3:52 PM May 2, 2011
1

Today’s performance before the bright lights by a White House national security adviser was an extraordinary briefing to behold.

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Closure and the FBI poster

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 2, 2011, 10:35 AM May 2, 2011
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A Midmorning caller, who says her sister died at the Pentagon on 9/11, called the program today to say the death of Osama bin Laden doesn’t provide the closure that the experts say it should be bringing to the families of 9/11 victims.

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Protesters on the payroll

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 21, 2011, 3:15 PM Apr 21, 2011

Civil disobedience and protest took a sharp turn in the United States today, when protesters interrupted a speech by Barack Obama to sing about jailed Army Pvt. Bradley Manning.

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Death of a war photographer

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2011, 2:36 PM Apr 20, 2011
2

Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya.

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A parental tribute to a gay soldier

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2011, 12:41 PM Apr 1, 2011
2

‘It was the least interesting thing about him,’ a Rosemount father says about his son.

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The kill team

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2011, 1:00 PM Mar 30, 2011
4

If the U.S. news media had worked less hard to shield readers from the photographs of the Kill Team, the military unit in Afghanistan that killed innocent people for sport, would there be more discussion about it?

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One picture

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 24, 2011, 2:12 PM Mar 24, 2011
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You don’t see many images of returning dead soldiers these days, and it’s not because they’ve stopped coming.

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Brock Savelkoul’s battle

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2011, 3:41 PM Mar 22, 2011
5

Now that the U.S. is involved in another war, it might be a good time to revisit an old one.

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No dice, doughboy

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 8, 2011, 11:46 AM Mar 8, 2011

It took a lot to get Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid on the same page. It took Frank Buckles dying.

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