Eight US soldiers die in Iraq 'copter crash, ambush

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BAGHDAD, May 29 (Reuters) - Two U.S. military personnel were killed when their helicopter came down under enemy fire north of Baghdad and six more died when a column of vehicles heading to the crash site was ambushed, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

The deaths on Monday brought the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 112 this month, making May the deadliest for 2007 and equalling the record set in December 2006.

A total of 3,463 U.S. soldiers have died since the March 2003 invasion. The worst month for U.S. forces was November 2004, when 137 were killed.

U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Garver said the helicopter came down in Diyala province, where 3,000 additional U.S. troops have been sent to fight mostly al Qaeda militants.

"There was ground fire involved but we don't know how the helicopter went down," he said.

He said a quick reaction force had been dispatched to secure the crash site. Six soldiers were killed when their vehicles were hit by roadside bombs.

Militants have employed similar tactics in the past -- shooting down a helicopter and then ambushing the rescue force.

Insurgents have shot down at least nine helicopters this year, killing 30 people, mainly American soldiers. Seven of those aircraft were U.S. military helicopters and the other two belonged to a private American security company.

Diyala, a large, ethnically mixed region northeast of Baghdad, has seen some of the worst violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Violence has surged further in recent months since a crackdown in Baghdad forced militants to seek new bases
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Five Britons are reported to have been kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad.

They included four bodyguards and a finance expert. Earlier reports said the expert was German.

Witnesses and sources told the BBC that the kidnappers wore police uniforms and arrived in up to 40 police vehicles.

"We are aware of reports that a group of Westerners have been kidnapped. We are urgently looking into them," the UK foreign office said.

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22 killed in Baghdad explosion 10 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A parked minibus packed with explosives blew up Tuesday afternoon in a busy section of central Baghdad, killing 22 people and injuring 58 others, police said.

The attack in Tayaran Square occurred about 1 p.m. in an area filled with bus stops and shops, police said.

It came a day after a suicide car bomber struck a busy commercial district in the capital, killing at least 21 people, setting vehicles on fire and damaging a nearby Sunni shrine, police and hospital officials said.

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Busy week already in Iraq

At least 10 killed in car bomb in Baghdad-police
29 May 2007 10:48:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BAGHDAD, May 29 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in southwestern Bagdad, police said.

Another police source put the death toll at five and 14 wounded in the blast in Amil district.
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Democracy in action

Yup it could be a case of the Big Bang Terror

One sided gloom and doom..........gotta love it. So how many insurgents were killed in the same time frame?

Have a good one!:s4:

It doesnt make a gwaddamn how many insurgent the US kills it just gonna create more, that is more iraqi are gonna fight the US

General says he needs more troops
U.S. commander for northern Iraq cites the growing violence in Diyala province.

BAGHDAD â?? The commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq said Friday that he did not have enough troops to deal with the escalating violence in Iraq's Diyala province. Diyala borders Baghdad on the east, and violence in the province has grown as U.S. troop levels have been bolstered in the capital. ...

(Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. "Randy") Mixon, speaking Friday by teleconference from Camp Speicher, outside Tikrit, to a Pentagon news conference, said that he did not have enough soldiers to provide security in Diyala. The local government is "nonfunctional" and the central government is "ineffective," he said. ...

"I'm going to need additional forces," he said, "to get that situation to a more acceptable level, so the Iraqi security forces will be able in the future to handle that." ... Mixon emphasized that he had asked for more troops shortly after arriving in Iraq in September, well before the U.S. troop buildup began in Baghdad.

Does anyone remember the draft?I hope all you guys have fun fighting in the sand box.

More news...im not fighting over there i b fighting over here..

Source: Reuters

More FALLUJA, Iraq, May 31 (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and another 20 wounded by a suicide bomber in Iraq's Falluja, west of Baghdad, on Thursday, a hospital source said.

A bomber wearing a suicide explosives vest walked up to a queue of young men at a police recruitment centre and detonated the bomb, the source said.


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25 killed in suicide bombing in Iraq By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50, police said.

Ten policemen were among the dead in the attack, which occurred about 11 a.m., according to a police official in the city who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Fallujah, in restive Anbar province, is 40 miles west of Baghdad.

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Coalition, Iraqi raids round up 3 suspected terrorists; Iraq reports U.S. airstrike in Sadr City
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces detained three suspected terrorists during operations in central and eastern Iraq Thursday morning, a U.S. military statement said.

In other developments, two people died in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

The strike hit a house, wounding a third person, the official said.

The U.S. military was not able to immediately confirm the airstrike, but did say a raid in Sadr City netted two people thought to be members of an insurgent group.
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