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8A Daily News – Thursday, August 11, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Military killed the Taliban who hit helicopter WASHINGTON (AP) — International forces killed the Tal- iban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday’s mission, the top Amer- ican commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. Marine Corps Gen. John Allen told a Pentagon news conference that an F-16 airstrike Monday took out fewer than 10 insurgents involved in the attack on the Chi- nook helicopter. In a separate statement Wednesday, the military said the Monday strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the rocket- propelled grenade at the heli- copter. The military said intelli- gence gained on the ground pro- vided a high degree of confidence that the insurgent who fired the grenade was the person killed. It did not provide further details. Allen defended the decision to send in the Chinook loaded with special operations forces to pursue insurgents escaping from the weekend firefight with Army Rangers in a dangerous region of Wardak province of eastern Afghanistan. ‘‘We’ve run more than a couple of thousand of these night opera- tions over the last year, and this is the only occasion where this has occurred,’’ said Allen. ‘‘The fact that we lost this aircraft is not ... a decision point as to whether we’ll use this aircraft in the future. It’s not uncommon at all to use this aircraft on our special missions.’’ Remarkable method wipes out leukemia NEW YORK (AP) — Scien- tists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia — turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells. They’ve only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: Two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third patient is improved but still has some cancer. Scientists are already preparing to try the same gene therapy technique for other kinds of cancer. ‘‘It worked great. We were sur- prised it worked as well as it did,’’ said Dr. Carl June, a gene therapy expert at the University of Penn- sylvania. ‘‘We’re just a year out now. We need to find out how long these remissions last.’’ He led the study, published Wednesday by two journals, New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine. It involved three men with very advanced cases of chronic lym- phocytic leukemia, or CLL. The only hope for a cure now is bone marrow or stem cell transplants, which don’t always work and carry a high risk of death. Debt panel questions arise WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans named a mix of par- tisans and pragmatists on Wednes- day to the new congressional com- mittee charged with striking a debt-cutting compromise. While members of both parties expressed urgency over controlling surging budget shortfalls, others were pes- simistic that the bipartisan panel would overcome deep political divides. With nine of the committee’s 12 members selected, Washington began calculating whether the fal- tering economy and chaotic finan- cial markets could spur the panel to produce a bipartisan plan trim- ming $1.5 trillion from the gov- ernment’s debt over the coming decade. Failure — a real possibili- ty, considering GOP opposition to tax increases and Democratic hos- tility to cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits — would trigger automatic spend- ing cuts in hundreds of defense and domestic programs. ‘‘You wouldn’t want to be in there while the ‘Dirty Dozen’ are up to their work, because, boy, I tell you, the hair and eyeballs will fly all over the floor,’’ said former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., who co-chaired a bipartisan deficit commission that recommended trillions in savings last year. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, named conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, a rising force among House Republicans, as GOP co-chairman of the pow- erful new panel. Boehner also appointed House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, a pair of veteran Michigan Republicans, to the committee. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., named confi- dante and No. 2 Senate GOP leader Jon Kyl of Arizona, tabbing a lawmaker who is retiring in 2013 and is a solid conservative. He also appointed GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, elected last year with tea party backing, and fellow freshman Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a former budget director and trade representative for President George W. Bush who is viewed as a possible vice presidential pick next year. Cameron vows to fight riots LONDON (AP) — Thou- sands of extra police officers flooded the streets of London on Wednesday to deter rioters, and Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the government will take any necessary action to restore order and confidence to Britain’s streets. Even as Cameron promised not to let a ‘‘culture of fear’’ take hold, tensions flared in Birmingham, where a murder probe was opened after three men were killed in a hit-and-run drive as they took to the streets to defend shops from looting. ‘‘We needed a fightback and a fightback is under way,’’ Cameron said in a somber televised state- ment outside his Downing Street office after a meeting of the nation’s crisis committee. 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An eerie calm prevailed over most of London as night fell Wednesday, with a highly-visible police presence throughout the city. Metropolitan Police said objects had been thrown at officers in south London’s Eltham neigh- borhood but that the incident had been ‘‘dealt with’’ and a group was dispersed. Bachmann says family off limits, cites foster kids STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — From her first campaign to her latest, Republican presiden- tial contender Michele Bach- mann has used her time as a fos- ter parent to help create an image of a family-focused Christian driven by compassion and social conviction. Now, with the national spot- light shining bright, the Min- nesota congresswoman is claiming her family is off lim- its. 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