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Update

by Mark Gisleson

From AP:

BAGHDAD, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Twelve coalition personnel were killed and nine wounded when two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Iraq on Saturday, a U.S. Army spokesman in Baghdad said.

The spokesman said there was no immediate information on the cause of the crash, which involved two helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division. There was also no word of any Iraqi casualties on the ground.

The helicopters crashed in a residential area in the northern city of Mosul.

Christ.

One question: what kind of wounded do you get from a helicopter crash?

Update to the update: I didn't have the energy to deconstruct Stephen Hayes' lengthy flaunting of a leaked intelligence memo, but fortunately Kevin "Calpundit" Drum was up to the task. Or you can just note that Douglas Feith was involved, and let it go at that. [Update: Joel Swadesh over at Atrios does a first-rate job of boiling down Hayes' overly long piece, reducing it to its essential parts. Nothing new here at all, it appears. Just more hot air to justify what cannot be justified.]

One other thing. I don't link to or tout CounterPunch nearly as often as I should, mostly because I assume that almost all of our readers go to CounterPunch first, and then click on us as an afterthought (and our readership numbers certainly confirm that). But if you're not a CounterPunch reader, you probably should be. Lots of weekend reading up right now from Norman Solomon to Alexander Cockburn to Babelogue's own Elaine Cassel. Worth the click.

Posted by at November 15, 2003 1:51 PM

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