Arnett back on airwaves 4 months after shake-up

Peter Arnett is returning to the airwaves, four months after nearly losing his job in the fallout over CNN's retracted story about nerve gas use in Vietnam.

Arnett has filmed six reports on the civil war in Algeria, where an estimated 75,000 people have died in political violence since 1992. The reports are due to air soon."It was mutually agreed that we needed to let some time pass and find some appropriate stories for him to cover," CNN spokesman Steve Haworth said.

Arnett has not been on CNN since a follow-up report in June on Operation Tailwind. He narrated CNN's original Tailwind story in May that alleged U.S. forces used the deadly gas sarin in a 1970 mission to hunt down American defectors in the Vietnam War.

The story infuriated the military and CNN concluded the story could not be proven.