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June 6, 2011

NATO Deploys Choppers in Libya 
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NATO forces in Libya have launched missions against the regime of Col.
Mummmar Gaddafi using attack helicopters for the first time. Two
American-built Apache attack choppers have assaulted targets in the
oil-rich city of Brega. Defense officials in Paris said French
helicopters also joined in the mission. The Gaddafi regime, meanwhile,
is being accused of lying to foreign journalists about a wounded infant
it said was hurt in a NATO attack. Reporters were taken to the hospital
room of a baby girl and told she was injured in a NATO air strike. But a
hospital staffer later told reporters the girl had been in a car
accident.



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