A shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile

A shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile may or may not have hit a U.S. Air Force C-17 that had just taken off from Baghdad International Airport last week. Service officials will only say that there was an explosion in one of the aircraft's engines at about 4 a.m. Dec. 9 shortly after takeoff. The...

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