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Deadliest Strike on U.S. Troops in Iraq Comes After 'Tough Week'

Deadliest Strike on U.S. Troops in Iraq Comes After 'Tough Week'

The Associated Press
Sunday 02 November 2003

Fallujah, Iraq - Insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter with dozens of American troops on board Sunday, killing 15 and wounding 21 in the deadliest strike against U.S. forces since the war began -- a sign of the increasing sophistication of Iraq's elusive anti-U.S. fighters.
The giant helicopter was ferrying the soldiers on their way for leave outside Iraq when, witnesses told The Associated Press, two missiles streaked into the sky, fired from a date palm grove, and slammed into the rear of the aircraft. It crashed in flames in farmers' fields west of Baghdad.
It was the deadliest day for U.S. troops since March 23 -- the first week of the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein -- and a major escalation in the campaign to drive the U.S.-led coalition out of the country.

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