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Lawyer: Military Urged Drugs on Pilots

NPR | By Lynn Neary
Published January 2, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

A lawyer for two Illinois National Guard pilots who accidentally bombed Canadian forces in Afghanistan last spring says his clients were on drugs. He says military officials pushed the men to take amphetamines. Hear more from NPR's Lynn Neary and Christian Science Monitor correspondent Brad Knickerbocker, a former Navy pilot.

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