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| U.S. searches for pilots of two missing jets |
| 2005-05-02 |
| A search is under way for the pilots of two Marine Corps F/A-18 jets that were lost Monday while flying in support of the war in Iraq, Navy officials said. Navy officials told CNN they believe the jets collided with each other in bad weather during the routine mission. The crew of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson lost contact with the planes about 10:10 p.m. (2:10 p.m. ET), a U.S. military statement said. "There was no indication of hostile fire in the area at the time contact was lost," the military statement said. The statement did not say if the planes were over land or sea when they lost contact. The Boeing-built F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather fight and attack aircraft that can carry either one- or two-person crews. The aircraft, with a price tag of $35 million and up, have been in service since the 1980s. Eight bombings in one day Eight bombings in Iraq killed at least 13 Iraqis and wounded 50 others Monday. More than 100 Iraqis, most of them security forces and civilians, have died in attacks since Thursday's election of a new Cabinet by the transitional National Assembly. Hours after six car bombs rocked separate locations in Baghdad and Mosul, two more exploded late Monday, including one targeting a U.S. military convoy near the Abu Ghraib prison, Iraqi police said. The bombings came a day after a suicide attack during the funeral of a Kurdish official killed about 25 people. In the bombing near Abu Ghraib, police said a suicide car bomber apparently was trying to target a U.S. convoy when his vehicle detonated around 8:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. ET). The U.S. military said the car bomb detonated prematurely, killing only the attacker, and no U.S. personnel were wounded. Less than an hour later, a car bomb blew up at an Iraqi national guard checkpoint south of Baghdad, near a highway ramp on the way from Yousifiya to Mahmoudiya. One Iraqi guardsman was killed and six were wounded, police said. Earlier in the day, four car bombs exploded in separate locations in Baghdad, and two more in the northern city of Mosul, officials said. A car bomb exploded around 10 a.m. (2 a.m. ET) Monday outside a building in the Karrada neighborhood of the city's south-central region, killing nine Iraqi civilians and wounding 12 others, said an official with Baghdad's emergency police. About 10 minutes earlier, a car bomb in northwest Baghdad's Hurriya neighborhood wounded two Iraqi commandos, the official said. The leader of Baghdad's commando forces, Maj. Gen. Rasheed Aflayeh, was in the convoy but escaped unharmed, the official said. About two hours later, two Iraqi policemen died when a car bomb exploded in east-central Baghdad's Zayouna neighborhood, the emergency police official said. That explosion wounded 11 others. In northern Baghdad's Tarmiya area, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army convoy exploded, wounding four people, the Baghdad emergency police official said. The U.S. military reported the attacks in Mosul killed a child and wounded 15 civilians. |
| Posted by:God Save The World |
| #1 About this last sentence The U.S. military reported the attacks in Mosul killed a child and wounded 15 civilians. From a list from Michael Yon of http://www.michaelyon.blogspot.com/ ''There is much fighting here in Mosul. Today, a suicide car-bomber attacked one of our Strykers in a neighborhood where kids were playing on the street. (Soldiers were throwing candy to the kids.) The bomb was large but only two soldiers were lightly wounded. They are spending tonight in the hospital and will come back to work tomorrow. But the neighborhood itself was a horrible scene. The soldiers are extremely upset about the enemy attacking through a group of kids. The soldiers loaded up the kids they could get and took them to our hospital. Is very depressing.'' Check him out, he's in Mosel -- we may have another Lt. Col hero LTC Erik Kurilla. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2005-05-02 23:19 |