Enemy fire cited in Iraq copter crash

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Source: Associated Press

Enemy fire cited in Iraq copter crash
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The U.S. helicopter that crashed and killed two soldiers in Diyala province Monday was shot down by enemy fire, a senior U.S. military official said Wednesday.

Brig. Gen. Perry Wiggins, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military believes the aircraft was brought down by small arms fire, and that the roadside bomb that killed a response team headed to the crash site was not the newer, armor piercing explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, that have killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers.

Speaking to Pentagon reporters, Wiggins called the assault a "complex attack." But he also said the military continues to "adjust our flight maneuvering and our routes in order to not become predictable and in order to make it more difficult" for the enemy.

Two soldiers from Task Force Lightening were killed in the helicopter crash, and six others died in the roadside bomb ambush as they raced to the rescue.

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1. I just read that the US took delivery of about 155

new helis.

They are unbelievably expensive. And they are coming down, fast right now.

We are losing badly in both countries.

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2. Ethically,

would one rather be fighting an occupation or supporting an occupation? The question no one wants to address is whether supporting the troops is equivalent to supporting an occupation of avarice. I don't know the answer except to support the troops by getting them home. And ending the hegemonic dreams of the elites.