"This could have had a tragic ending if that co-pilot was not able to persuade him out of the cockpit, " Mr. Antolino said.

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But Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of Defenders of Wildlife, called it "a tragic ending to what has otherwise been one of America's greatest wildlife conservation success stories".

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And it sets up the final struggle between the prison group and the Woodburians, ending on both a surprisingly tragic note and a surprisingly hopeful one.

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"I think this is seen as one happy ending to what was otherwise a tragic story, " she says.

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And an opponent who calls me ending the war in Iraq "tragic, " or suggests that somehow we should stay longer in Afghanistan has a very different world view, different perspective.

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