First 3,000 Troops for McCain/Bush Escalation Arrive on one of Deadliest Days of the War
The first contingent of the McCain/Bush Escalation arrived Saturday in Bagdad according to the BBC World Service. We lost 25 American soldiers yesterday in what appears to be the third worst day in the sad history of the war. Four Americans were lost in fire fights in Anbar provence and twelve were killed when a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down. The remaining Americans lost their lives in various incidents across Bagdad and Iraq. Click here to read more from the BBC News Service.
Details of the helicopter crash are reported by the New York Times. On one of the deadliest days for United States forces since the Iraq war began, an American Black Hawk helicopter crashed in a Sunni area north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing all 12 soldiers onboard, the United States military said today. Iraqi officials in the area said the helicopter had been shot down, though there was no immediate confirmation from American officials.
The stories from BBC and the New York Times were filed late last evening. The latest story from Associate Press adds tewnty-fifth death.