European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 finds insurgents who attacked helps stars and stripes the military has broken up a network of insurgents who were behind a string of deadly at tacks on helicopters in Iraq this the army top Avia Tion officer in Iraq has told Usa some insurgent teams were killed when helicopter pilots flew Over ambush Sites and fired on the paper reported Mon i dont think they anticipated our rapid and very capable response to James Simmons told Usa today in a Telephone interview from Simmons didst identify when the raids took place or the num Ber of insurgents killed or Cap but he said it was fewer than the paper enemy fighters shot Down six military helicopters in january and killing 23 service heavy machine guns were used in four attacks and Small arms in one a mis Sile was used to Down one of the six two private con tractor helicopters also were shot Down during that there often was an arrange ment of Roadside bombs to delay or destroy Rescue Sim Mons told reporters in the new York times reported at the time that documents Cap tured from iraqi insurgents and described in an american Intelli gence report showed that the Mili Tants were preparing to concen trate on the air the military countered that wave of attacks in part by limiting the airspace where pilots could some pilots complained at the time that limiting routes could make it that much easier for insurgents to predict flight helicopters still come under at tack 90 to 100 times a month in Simmons most attacks Are ineffective Small arms the use of helicopters to ferry troops and supplies throughout Iraq has increased enormously Over the past two owing mostly to the dangers of Roadside in army air Craft flew in they flew while this year they Are expected to Fly the increase in missions has also increased enemy opportunities to Down Simmons suggested in february that aircraft would be even More enticing targets now that coalition forces were increasing troop num Bers As part of a plan to bring stability to More outposts being built to accommodate troops for surge stars and stripes american troops continue to build neighbourhood out posts to support the troop surge in and around while the final extra army brigade is poised to arrive in Iraq next units such As the 1st 15th infantry of the 3rd infantry divisions 3rd heavy Bri Gade combat have moved from larger foward operating bases to combat in the Case of the 1st 15th in three new outposts named after soldiers from the unit killed in combat have replaced their Home at Forward operating base the combat outposts in clude and in Salman and Kuwait officials to live with the populace and experience what they you get a better appreciation for the John the battalions operations was quoted As saying in a news re in one a combat outpost was built in a former government building and a set of officials the As the out posts Are Are being outfit Ted with showers and dining among other in another area of the Eastern District of officials Are touting successes since Gebru when iraqi police trucks with bloodstained Beds looked like they had just come from a Butcher one officer but the sectarian murders have largely according to wu1 commander of company 2nd 325th airborne infantry the battalion patrols an area of the City that includes and Sadr some 20 percent of Baghdad population lives in the giving a ratio of one sol Dier for every officials while acknowledging there is still a ways to officials have said there confronting failed local governments and breakdowns in Public that unit too operates from a combat this one named Callahan it was formerly an up scale shopping Center that had been Maya Brian from of Delta 4th 31st infantry 2nd 10th Mountain division patrols nine Days after a May 12 attack that left four soldiers and an iraqi Soldier dead and three comrades missing in Quarg huli near gunmen kill 7 in attack on bus headed into Baghdad by Ravi Nessman the associated press Baghdad gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus heading to Baghdad from a shiite town North of the capital kill ing seven including a police a mortar Shell hit the roof of the parliament building inside the heavily guarded Green zone in but no one was a lawmaker also iraqi defense minister Abdulqadir Alobaidi said the iraqi military is drawing up plans on How to Cope if forces leave the country the statement marked the first time a senior iraqi official has spoken publicly about the possibility of a Quick end to the mis it was unclear if the remarks were More than routine contingency thousands of mean continued combing through Fields and questioning suspects As the search for three missing soldiers continued following a May 12 ambush South of Baghdad that killed four other soldiers and their the which left the town of was driving near the violence racked City of 35 Miles Northeast of when it was ambushed outside the town of police the attack underscored the Sec tarian violence and instability that continues to plague Dyala prov Ince North of Baghdad despite the three Montgold Security crack Down in Baghdad and surround ing deaths in Iraq the associated press As of May at least members of the military have died since the be ginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military civil at least died As a re sult of hostile according to the military the a count is 26 higher than the defense departments last updated Friday at 10 the British military has re ported 148 deaths 33 18 20 bulgar 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three two each and one death the latest deaths reported by the military six soldiers were killed sat urday in a bombing in Western a Soldier was killed saturday in an explosion in the latest identifications re ported by the military no identifications in Western a Roadside bomb exploded near a group of iraqi soldiers patrolling the sunni dominated Adil neighbor Hood in Western killing three of the soldiers and injuring in the confusion of the the soldiers fired near the office of Adnan the Leader of parliaments largest sunni Arab the iraqi accordance according to his no one was the stepped up and iraqi patrols of the capital during the crackdown have left the troops More vulnerable to attack by in military officials the military reported Sun Day that six soldiers on patrol in Baghdad were killed in a Road Side bombing along with their interpreter on a seventh Soldier died in a blast saturday in a mostly shiite City 80 Miles South of the where Radical shiite militias those deaths brought the num Ber of american troops killed in Iraq since Friday to at least 15 eight of them in so at least 71 troops have died in Iraq this month most of them from the mortar Shell that hit the parliament building landed almost above the office of the parliament speaker and caused Only minor said lawmaker Sabah who was at a committee meeting inside at the a few hours several More mortar rounds were some of them landed in the Green but there were no reports of Casu the embassy