Secret Squirrel
12-11-2004, 07:07 AM
BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four were wounded late Thursday when an airborne helicopter struck one on the ground at an airfield in the northern city of Mosul, military officials said.
A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Paul Hastings, said the airborne helicopter, an AH-64 Apache gunship, had hit a UH-60 Black Hawk transport. He added that the cause of the crash was unclear.
Violence continued to flare in the Sunni Triangle, to the north and west of Baghdad. In western Anbar province, a Marine was killed while conducting security operations, military officials said.
In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, mortar fire struck a car carrying two civilians near an Iraqi National Guard patrol on Friday afternoon, killing one and wounding the other, said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens.
Over the last week, there have been at least four attacks on police station and national guard units in Samarra.
link (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1211iraq-rdp11.html)
A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Paul Hastings, said the airborne helicopter, an AH-64 Apache gunship, had hit a UH-60 Black Hawk transport. He added that the cause of the crash was unclear.
Violence continued to flare in the Sunni Triangle, to the north and west of Baghdad. In western Anbar province, a Marine was killed while conducting security operations, military officials said.
In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, mortar fire struck a car carrying two civilians near an Iraqi National Guard patrol on Friday afternoon, killing one and wounding the other, said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens.
Over the last week, there have been at least four attacks on police station and national guard units in Samarra.
link (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1211iraq-rdp11.html)