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US copter under fire in Iraq; GI killed
A U.S. Army helicopter made a forced landing Monday night under hostile fire in northern Iraq, and one soldier was killed and another injured, the U.S. military said. The incident occurred in Tal Afar, an insurgent-ridden city 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, the military said. No further details were released. Residents of Tal Afar, reached by telephone from Mosul, said the helicopter came down about 6:30 p.m. in the southwestern part of the city. U.S. troops fought insurgents last year in the Turkomen city and managed to restore control enough to hand it back to Iraqi authorities. However, Iraqi authorities lost control, in part because of the city's volatile ethnic mix. The U.S. military has bolstered its force around Tal Afar last spring and have been trying to restore full control to the strategic city, which sits along major trade routes to Syria.
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