BAGHDAD: Two US soldiers were killed when their helicopter was shot down and crashed in central Iraq, the military said on Friday as the government prepared to ring Baghdad with tens of thousands of security forces to curb the insurgency.
… In a reminder of the deadly insurgency, violence claimed at least 15 lives on Thursday across Iraq, including a car bomb blast in Baghdad’s northern Shula suburb that exploded near a police patrol, killing five people.
Another ambush targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and a bystander caught in the crossfire in Mosul on Friday, said police Brig. Saeed Ahmed. A guard at an Azamiyah carpentry factory in northern Baghdad was killed Friday when four mortar rounds landed on the building, police said. Four others were wounded. Insurgents destroyed several sections of an oil pipeline on Baghdad’s western outskirts, near Abu Ghraib, on Friday, and footage taken by Associated Press Television News showed jet black billowing clouds of smoke towering into the sky. An army official said police raided two Baghdad homes overnight and detained four suspects, including three brothers, over the Shula bombing. Police said several people were detained on Friday in connection with a May 6 car bomb attack that killed 17 people.
They’ll cause ecological ruin they will.
another one bites the dust!