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Iraq
Two pilots killed as US chopper 'downed' in Iraq
2006-01-14
Two pilots were killed when a US military helicopter crashed after being reported lost on Friday near the Iraqi city of Mosul, with a top US commander saying that indications pointed to hostile fire as the cause. "Two pilots were killed on Friday when their Oh-58D Kiowa helicopter went down in the city of Mosul ... The aircrew members were recovered from the aircraft," a statement by the US military said. "The indicators are that (the helicopter crash) was due to hostile fire," said Lieutenant General John Vines, commander of the US-led multinational force in Iraq. Vines, who spoke via video link from Baghdad to reporters at the Pentagon, said that he had no further information on the incident.
Posted by:Fred

#4  What they said. My heart weeps, but today I have no words.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-14 18:01  

#3  Again, very sad, though they certainly know and accepted the risk; my condoleances to their families, and praise theses fallen pilots, as well as all the US troops and iraqi friendlies before.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-01-14 15:09  

#2  Pastor Adeboye's 2006 "prophecies." Check it out funky sould brothers.

http://home.rccg.org/Prophesy/2006_prophecies.htm

Posted by: CaziFarkus   2006-01-14 04:09  

#1  I wonder who has stepped up to the plate in this shithole to cover for Duece-Four's rotation back to The World...

Mosul needs a thorough 100% cordon - search - kill regemin... Too many good people lost there - same as with all of the fucking Sunni Triangle...

Nah, fuck it - rather than the Fallujah Treatment, god-damnit, I want smoking holes. Great big gigantic yawning smoking holes. Fuck this noise. Waste a couple of these shitholes, and just as the weather determined which Japanese cities were used as demonstrations of why they should surrender, toss the dice to choose the target(s). The rest will finally get the message they did NOT get during the initial phase of this conflict. You wanna harbor assholes? You can't drop a dime on 'em? Fine, then you get The Treatment. Fuck you. And your Family. And your Clan. And your Tribe. E-fucking-nuff, already. Rinse and Repeat.

Never met a Sunni village, town, or city worth ONE US Soldier. And yeah, I know Sunni and Shi'a both. Grrrr, this pisses me off far beyond my ability to express it.

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Thank You for your service and sacrifice. Would that we pulled off the gloves - and you were the last.
Posted by: .com   2006-01-14 02:43  

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