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Deadliest Day in Iraq For American Occupation Forces Since 1989 — 37 U.S. troops killed


By Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Posted on Thu Jan 27, 2005 at 11:10:06 AM EST

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thirty U.S. Marines and a sailor were killed in a helicopter crash and six more troops died in insurgent attacks Wednesday in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in 15 years. The U.S. military has not experienced such a high loss of life in one day in 15 years, since an explosion ripped through a gun turret on the USS Iowa during a training exercise in the Caribbean in April 1989, killing 47 sailors.
  • There were no survivors among the 30 Marines and one Navy corpsman in the CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter that crashed near Ar Rutbah, about 220 miles west of Baghdad. All but three of the Marines had been based in Hawaii, according to Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii.
  • In three other incidents, four U.S. Marines were killed in action in western Iraq, a soldier was killed and two others were wounded when insurgents attacked an Army patrol near the northern town of Duluiyah, and a roadside bomb in the Baghdad area killed a soldier and wounded two others, the U.S. command said.
While al-Qaida warned Iraqis to stay away from the polls, saying they would have only themselves to blame if they were hurt in attacks, President Bush called on people to “defy the terrorists” and cast ballots in the crucial election.

From msnbc.com - January 26, 2005 - By NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and news services
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6847225/
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