afghanistan. it s a very difficult story by our afghanistan bureau chief aaron baker and it s not that we are supporting the war in afghanistan or against it, but it s something that people need to know. it s very hard to look at but it s also impossible to turn away and that is our story this week. i m going turn you over to our panel. i just want to ask if you could take us inside the decision-making process to make that your cover. yes. i wrote about it in my editor s letter this week. i was troubled about it. myself, it s an i am achl, i say, is very difficult to look at. i have two young children, as you know, mika, they have been on the show a couple times and i showed it to them. but i felt the consequences of what we are talking about here. the discussion is so important. the war it afghanistan is important to all of us and affects all of us. as disturbing as the image is, it is even more disturbing what happens there if we leave and that was the calculation hi to make. y
drink that water, percloerate just persists. at the red stone arsenal facility in huntsville, bachl, they have been working on a pilot program to to dispose of the fuel through a means other than burning it. today this morning at that facility there was a major chemical explosion of some kind. two contractors reportedly severely burned. that area is represented by congressman parker griffith, and recently made news for switching his party affiliation from democratic to republican. congressman griffith released a statement saying the explosion occurred, he said, in building 7352 where contractors working on a u.s. army aviation and missile command pilot program were removing ammonium percloer rate from multiple launch rock systems. that sounds like a pretty big facility, you re right. it is a 40,000 acre facility containing 12 million feet of office space, more than 30,000 people work there. since right after 9/11 this
facility in huntsville, bachl, they have been working on a pilot program to to dispose of the fuel through a means other than burning it. today this morning at that facility there was a major chemical explosion of some kind. two contractors reportedly severely burned. that area is represented by congressman parker griffith, and recently made news for switching his party affiliation from democratic to republican. congressman griffith released a statement saying the explosion occurred, he said, in building 7352 where contractors working on a u.s. army aviation and missile command pilot program were removing as theing ammoniu perclorate from multiple launch rocket systems. that sounds like a pretty big facility, you re right. it is a 40,000 acre facility containing 12 million feet of office space, more than 30,000 people work there. since right after 9/11 this facility in northern alabama has also been home to our national center for explosives training and research, the sort of bomb squa