BBC Breaking: Four people killed as US helicopter crashes near Tikrit

[brucelee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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[brucelee]

2. NOOO CHECK THE LINK

[brucelee]

3. cnn has the link story

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/07/sprj.irq.main/index.html

[Noordam]

4. kick

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[Noordam]

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[Aidoneus]

6. Four killed in Black Hawk crash

still no word whether it was shot down or an "accident"..

Four killed in Black Hawk crash
Friday 07 November 2003

At least four American soliders have been killed and two injured as a helicopter is "forced down" near the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit, the US Army has said.

The helicopter went down on Friday on a riverbank about 1km (half a mile) from the US base in Saddam Hussein's former palace near Tikrit, which is Saddam's hometown and a hotbed of anti-US sentiment.

White smoke was seen rising from the wreckage and three other choppers were hovering overhead.

The cause of the crash has not yet been confirmed - but resistance attacks on US helicopters have recently been more effective.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9ACA9A0A-EDBE-4356-A163-1B7A6C61C094.htm

[Noordam]

7. :kick:

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[Newsjock]

8. Death toll now 6; all aboard killed

AP-ME GEN APNEWSALERT

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - Six killed in helicopter crash, 4th Infantry Division spokeswoman Maj. Jossyln Aberle says. All were from the 101st Airborne Division.

[JeebusH]

9. that 7 overall today ...

another soldier was killed in Northern Iraq in another incident

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Ok just from the crashes

We are up to 21 troopers killed in a week...

God I hate this administration!

Yes this is the Revolt I was expecting to happen...

God I hate it when I am right... so far what is the count for this month?

15 from the Chinook

6 from the Black Hawk

and from the "minor inscidents" we are to what another fifteen?

If my math is correct the pace has dramatically increased.

This is indeed 1923 all over again, anybody care to send Paul Wolfowitz a comprehesive history of Iraq and HIGHLIGHT the revolt for him? Maybe Richard Perle? How about Feigh? I mean bush will not read it, no pretty pictures.

[drewb]

14. We didn't learn anything from the French in Vietnam....

Why should we learn from the history of Iraq, America in 2004 (1964) is arrogant enough to believe that the laws of nature don't apply to it...

Innocent Iraqis (Vietnamese) and American Troops pay the ultimate price for this arrogance...

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Actually it is our misleaders

who are the arrogant fools..

That is why the people are drawing parallels to Nam (and this is
on Crack btw) Never midn the proper comparison is Afganistan and
Iraq, 1923

Lets keep hamering on that great GOOD MORNING VIETNAM theme, that
Middle America gets

[undergroundrailroad]

10. AP News Alert/TIKRIT, Iraq

The Associated Press
Friday, November 7, 2003; 5:29 AM


TIKRIT, Iraq - Six killed in helicopter crash, all from the 101st Airborne Division, military says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11104-2003Nov7.html

[Guaranteed]

12. This is getting BAD.

And it AIN'T no crash. Near Tikrit? Yeah, right...it's a crash. :eyes:

[Manix]

13. The Crawford Coward has blood on his hands!!

nt

[saigon68]

16. BRING EM ON---shouted the AWOL Chimpanzee

At this rate we'll be at 600 by Christmas maybe more

[TahitiNut]

17. duplicate

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=204834

I'm locking this thread. Interested DUers are welcome to continue discussing this in the referenced thread.

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