Eight US soldiers die in Iraq 'copter crash, ambush

[eg420ne]

Time for the news

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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eg420ne Reviewed by eg420ne on 05-29-2007. Eight US soldiers die in Iraq 'copter crash, ambush Time for the news:( 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 Rating: 5

[eg420ne]

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.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6700319.st...

[eg420ne]

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.

U.S.: 8 Memorial Day deaths in Iraq - Yahoo! News ;_ylt=AgxQBIxIbiuBlnA9nBce0oSs0NUE

[eg420ne]

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.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR938779.htm

[RamblerGambler]

Democracy in action

[eg420ne]

Yup it could be a case of the Big Bang Terror

[Psycho4Bud]

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

Have a good one!:s4:

[eg420ne]

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

[eg420ne]

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.

[fishman3811]

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