U.S. Army Helicopter Goes Down in Iraq

[Ghost in the Machine]

Published: 8/9/06, 5:05 AM EDT


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in Iraq's western Anbar province, leaving two crew members missing and four injured, while hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops poured into the capital in a desperate bid to stem sectarian violence that is threatening to ignite a civil war.

In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, four people were killed and 16 wounded in a U.S. airstrike late Tuesday, police said. There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials, but a mosque and nearby houses in the city were heavily damaged in the blast.

Four U.S. service members were injured when the UH60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed Tuesday with six people on board during a routine flight to survey the area, the U.S. command said in a statement Wednesday. The four injured troops were in stable condition, and it did not appear the crash was due to hostile fire, the U.S. said.

The ongoing violence in Baghdad has prompted U.S. commanders to reinforce troop strength in the city. Over the past weeks, a force expected to number nearly 12,000 has been assembling here to try to take the streets back from Sunni and Shiite extremists.


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[Oversea Visitor]

1. You means

everything set for a major bloodbath.
Gee 12,000 :rofl:

When killing start big scale.
Maybe need that to UNITE back Iraq :rofl:

FOOLS DAMN STUPID FOOLS.
Army fighting people always lose..

Damn damn go read history all you stupid generals.

[acmavm]

2. This is just so screwed. A foreign power is shipping in military to take

back the streets from the people who they belong to. Any excuse of it being to try to stop the violence is just so bizarre. What are they going to use to stop the violence? Violence, that's what.