European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 Helo ambush claim lives of 8 gis Quick reaction forces struck by Roadside bombs in route to crash site stars and stripes two soldiers were killed monday when their helicopter was shot Down and six oth ers were killed when their vehicles part of Quick reaction forces headed to the scene in Dyala province were hit by Roadside military officials said three other soldiers were wounded in the bomb according to a news re lease issued in keeping with Pentagon the names and units of the soldiers involved were being withheld until their families were the deadly incident began monday when an oh58 Kiowa helicopter went Down Between bad Cuba and cities about 60 Miles Northeast of though the official statement said Only that the incident was under two military officials in Iraq said Early Indi cations were that the helicopter was brought Down by Small arms the Kiowa is a single Rotor observation and Light attack helicopter used in support of ground the military officials said that two Quick reaction forces were dispatched to the both were attacked by insurgents using Roadside it was unclear How close to the crash scene the bombings took earlier this military officials said at press briefings that insurgents were using such tactics to target both helicopters and the ground forces that would re Spond to any in a 12 briefing in army Jim Deputy com Mander for multinational said in several cases insurgents have arranged Roadside bombs along expected routes to delay or destroy Rescue Simmons said the use of Roadside bombs to attack responding ground forces was part of the Downing of an Apache attack helicopter with the Call sign crazy horse 08 on in which two Crew members we Are engaged with a thinking Simmons said this enemy based on that we Are in the process of implementing a new Security it is in their from a strategic to engage and shoot Down our that briefing was called after a spate of crashes the result of both mechanical problems and enemy fire that struck american helicopters in the first two months of the at least eight other Heli copters have gone Down this in several insurgents appeared to use multiple Small arms or heavy machine guns to target a single the incidents raised worries of new advances in enemy tactics or but an army aviator for 31 years and former commander of an Apache at tack helicopter said the crashes were the result of a mix of mechanical problems and enemy gunfire and did not signal a need to limit helicopter flights in in my its still the safest Way to get around Simmons we have not cancelled one and there has been absolutely no reduction in rotary Wing aircraft nor will there in army aircraft flew in 2006 they flew while this year they Are expected to Fly since helicopters have been fired on about 100 times a mostly by Small arms and heavy machine the helicopters Are actually struck by this fire roughly 17 times a Simmons last the army top aviation officer in Iraq told Usa today that the Mili tary had broken up a network behind at tacks on helicopters in Iraq last win insurgent teams were killed when helicopter pilots flew Over ambush Sites and fired on the paper soldiers from Bravo 4th 31st infantry regiment Cross an open Field tuesday during a search for weapons and clues in the capture of american soldiers in Quarg huli Village near South of Maya May death toll for troops hits making it the deadliest month in 2007 5 brits at least 40 iraqis killed across Baghdad by Ravi Nessman the associated press Baghdad ten american soldiers died in Roadside bomb Ings and a helicopter crash on me Morial the military reported making May the deadliest month of the year for troops in the american deaths raised the number of forces killed this month to at least according to an associated press count Assem bled from military state the military said two Multina Tiona division Baghdad soldiers were killed the same Day when their patrol was hit by a Roadside bomb in Southern in other five britons were kidnapped tuesday from an iraqi government office in Bagh driven away in a 19vehicle Convoy filled with men in police uniforms who headed toward a Shi Ite stronghold in the the British government and an iraqi official Abdulkarim the Interior ministry said the abduction at the iraqi finance ministry office was carried out by men wearing police uni forms who showed up in 19 four wheel drive vehicles of the Type used by he said the band of kidnappers drove off to Ward Sadr the shiite Mahdi army stronghold in northeastern also in a parked mini bus packed with explosives blew up in Tataran riddling cars with knocking Over Pushcart and sending smoke into the witnesses the blast killed 23 people and injured 68 oth a police official in the District said on condition he not be the official said his superiors re fused to allow him to speak to re firefighters rushed to the scene and rescuers tried to pull the wounded out of they Yousef was working in his clothing shop 200 Yards away when the blast Tore through a line of buses waiting at the he i rushed there to see about four or five burning he i saw flesh on the ground and pools of More than an hour a pick up truck parked next to a shiite mosque in the Amil District in Western Baghdad completely demolishing the killing 17 people and wounding 55 according to a second police who also spoke on condition anonymity because he Felt use of his name would put his life in the mosque was reduced to rubble and piles of according to a television news cars were flipped charred and residents pushed debris off nearby in other gunmen in a 60 Miles North of set up fake checkpoints on the out skirts of the City and abducted More than 40 most of them police officers and Mem Bers of two tribes that had banded together against local a police official in the City said on condition of anonymity because he feared on at least 40 people were killed across Baghdad in a wave of according to an a tabulation of reports from police officials who said they could lose their jobs if they provided the another 33 Bullet riddled Bod ies were found tortured and abandoned in different parts of the the apparent victims of on going sectarian said an official in an iraqi ministry who has Access to daily deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is 19 higher than the defense departments last updated Friday at 10 the British military has re ported 149 deaths 33 18 20 bulgar 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three Esto two each and Hun South one death the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military three soldiers were killed saturday 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