HOUSE COMMITTEE EXAMINES TILLMAN FRATRICIDE IN WASHINGTON
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew," on Capitol Hill in Washington on August 1, 2007. Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player, was killed on April 22, 2004 in a "friendly fire" incident while serving in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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