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DEA agents among 14 killed in copter crashes

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 5:44 a.m.

A U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday while returning from the scene of a firefight with suspected Taliban drug traffickers in western Afghanistan, killing 10 Americans including three drug agents in a not-sonoticed war within a war.

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