Charlie Wilson, ex-US Congressman of Afghan fame, dies at 76

Charlie Wilson, the former US congressman, whose funding of Afghanistan’s resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie ”Charlie Wilson’s War,” died in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday. He was 76.
Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern…

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