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Iraq
US-led coalition service member killed, several injured in Iraq crash
2018-08-21
[AlAhram] A member of the US-led military coalition fighting Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
faceless myrmidons was killed and several injured when their helicopter crashed on a counter-terrorism mission in Iraq late on Sunday, the coalition said.

There were no indications that the crash was caused by hostile fire and the incident was under investigation, the statement added.

"All personnel were recovered by Coalition forces immediately following the incident, and three were evacuated for further treatment," said the statement.

Colonel Sean Ryan, a front man for the US-led international coalition, said on Twitter the crash was of a military helicopter.

The United States says it has about 5,200 troops in Iraq that are part of a coalition fighting Islamic State myrmidons.
Iraqi News adds:
In a statement published, today, the international coalition revealed that the incident took place yesterday while the helicopter was in a mission against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bully boyz in the area.
An Nahar adds:
"One coalition service member was killed and several injured when their aircraft crashed" in Iraq at around 2200 GMT on Sunday, the statement said.

It did not give the location of the crash or identify any of the casualties but said that three coalition members were "evacuated for further treatment", suggesting they were at death's door.

The crash happened as the aircraft "was conducting a partnered counterterrorism mission," the statement said.

"The dear departed service member's name and further details pertaining to the incident will be released by the pertinent national authorities," it added.

The coalition includes Britannia, La Belle France, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
along with Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Jordan, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.
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