- There was no immediate word on casualties from the crash
of the helicopter, which an Associated Press reporter saw burning 12 miles
east of Fallujah in the village of Zawbaa. Witnesses said they saw a rocket
hit the craft.
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- This latest shooting follows Sunday's downing of another
Apache in nearby Abu Ghraib, killing its two crewmembers.
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- The top U.S. military spokesman said about 70 Americans
and 700 insurgents had been killed this month, the bloodiest since the
fall of Baghdad a year agom with U.S.-led forces fighting on three fronts:
against Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Shiite militiamen in the south and
gunmen in Baghdad and on its outskirts.
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- More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in Fallujah since
the siege began on April 5, said the head of the city hospital, Rafie al-Issawi.
Most of the dead registered at hospitals and clinics were women, children
and elderly, he said.
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- In all, about 880 Iraqis have been killed in the violence,
according to an AP count based on statements by Iraqi hospital officials,
U.S. military statements and Iraqi police.
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- More Hostages Released
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- Eight employees of a Russian energy company seized by
masked gunmen who broke into their house in Baghdad were released unharmed
Tuesday after less than a day in captivity, the Russian Foreign Ministry
stated on Monday.
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- This latest release follows the release of of seven Chinese
men yesterday
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- The U.S. military said two American soldiers and seven
employees of U.S. contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root were missing in
Iraq. They disappeared after their convoy was ambushed Friday near Abu
Ghraib, west of Baghdad.
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- Only one, Thomas Hamill, a 43-year-old truck driver from
Mississippi, is known to have been abducted. His captors have threatened
to kill and mutilate him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the
city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday with no word on his fate.
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- U.S. troops converging on Najaf
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- In the south, hundreds of U.S. troops were converging
on Najaf for a showdown with Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers came under
an ambush that killed one soldier.
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- A large force of 2,500 U.S. troops backed by tanks and
heavy artillery " more than are currently besieging Fallujah "
deployed outside the city of Najaf on Tuesday on a mission the top U.S.
commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said aimed to "capture
or kill" radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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- On route to Najaf, the force's 80-vehicle convoy was
ambushed Monday night by gunmen firing small arms and setting of roadside
bombs north of the city. One soldier was killed and and an American civilian
contractor were wounded, officers in the convoy said.
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- http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=1458
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