BAGHDAD, Feb. 7, 2007
Baghdad Security Crackdown Begins
Meanwhile, 7 Killed After U.S. Military Helicopter Shot Down Near Capital
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Play CBS Video Video Another Chopper Down; 7 Dead Seven U.S. servicemen were killed when their helicopter was shot down northwest of Baghdad. It's the fifth time this year a U.S. helicopter has gone down. Lara Logan has exclusive details.
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Video 7 Dead In Iraq Chopper Crash All 7 people aboard a U.S. military helicopter that crashed in Iraq have died. Also, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress again that he is still optimistic about Iraq. Aleen Sirgany reports.
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Video Bremer Quizzed On Iraqi Money Democrats say Paul Bremer, once head of the Iraq occupation, must answer as to where nearly $12 billion of Iraqi reconstruction money went. David Martin reports.
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An Iraqi Army soldier looks away as his colleague searches a motorist at a vehicle checkpoint in central Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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An Iraqi Army soldier searches a driver at a vehicle checkpoint in central Baghdad on Feb. 7, 2007. (AP)
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In this image made from video broadcast by AP Television News, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, smoke and flame rise from the crash site of a U.S. military CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter which went down about 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP /APTN)
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This file photo shows a U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter in flight. (AP)
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New coils of barbed-wire and blast barriers marked checkpoints that caused traffic bottlenecks. U.S. Apache helicopters were in the air over parts of the city where they hadn't been seen before. Gunfire still rang out across the city and some residents said they doubted life would get better.
"Nothing will work. It's too late," said Hashem al-Moussawi, a resident of the Sadr City Shiite enclave who was badly wounded in a bombing in December.
Underlining the dangers ahead, a Sea Knight helicopter was shot down Wednesday northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people on board, the U.S. military said. It's the fifth helicopter to go down in Iraq in just over two weeks.
CBS News has learned that the transport helicopter was shot down during what the military called "routine operations."
But before the U.S. could announce the cause of the crash, a jihadi Web site linked to al Qaeda was already declaring victory, reports chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.
The Web site said, "The Air Defense Division of the Islamic State of Iraq has succeeded in shooting down and completely burning a Chinook helicopter."
"The helicopter was flying and passed over us, then we heard the firing of a missile," said Mohammad al-Janabi, a farmer who was speaking less than half a mile from the wreckage. "The helicopter then turned into a ball of fire. It flew in a circle twice, then it went down."
In other developments:
At checkpoints that seemed to have been thrown up overnight, some of them blocking half the lanes of traffic on wide streets, Iraqi police and army soldiers searched cars at random. Drivers and passengers had to get out and show identity papers.
Adding to the tension, Iraqi Army and police convoys fired rounds into the air above motorists, warning them to make way for the passing forces. The security troops drove over traffic medians and into incoming traffic.
In a sign of just how dangerous the security mission will be, a three-vehicle western security company convoy came under fire near Haifa Street, a Sunni insurgent stronghold just north of the Green Zone.
The security men in the armored cars returned fire and quickly exploded green and white smoke bombs for concealment. Minutes later, they sped away, with the bodyguards in the convoy pelting surrounding autos with water bottles to make them clear the way.
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- Remember last October when Cheney stated that the ecalating violence in Iraq was due to the insurgents wishing to influence our elections?
This today from the Philadelphia enquirer:
WASHINGTON - More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the last four months - at least 334 through Jan. 31 - than in any comparable stretch since the war began, an Associated Press analysis of casualty records shows.
Cheney, as usual, was completely off the mark, no pun intended...... - Reply to this comment
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Posted by lars008
Of course you're right! And the fact is, all of those detainees tortured themselves! You know what else, Saddam really hung himself, those videos were fake!! - Reply to this comment
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- radiob
an outside person could even argue that valerie plame outed herself by sending her husband to africa instead of a cia agent, hmmmmmm maybe it was their partisan politics driving their decisions..... joe wilson has disgraced himself and his wife..... - Reply to this comment
- feelfree1
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Baker is a huge part of the problem. He will surely roast in hell with the rest of them.
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- Allergies, the pollen from carrying 363 tons worth of flowers finally overcame the Claritan.
The ISG is a reasonable starting point. Rational discussion from its points would probably be more effective than "I don't wanna and you can't make me." Baker has know him his entire life, he should have known that the report needed to be illustrated. "My Pet Goat" kept him spellbound. - Reply to this comment
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The Iraqi in the photo must have either ran out of flowers, or stopped dancing. - Reply to this comment
- firststate,
Good points, but I don't give our Resident quite as much credit for our current situation. I think that he does what he is told to do.
Unfortunately most of our Congress is complicit in many of the worst deeds of the Bush regime. Because of this, I think that they will have a very hard time offering any real alternatives to our present course.
I hope the Democrats prove me wrong, but I am not holding my breath. I think that we must all demand accountability from our officials, by way of angry torch-bearing mob, if necessary.
Nighty, night. - Reply to this comment
- feelfree1
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What web site? Who "linked" this alleged web site to al Qaeda, and what basis did they use for the "link"?
Ms. Logan is a breathless propaganda tool of the pro-Corporate butchers. One of her primary functions appears to be as a hype agent for the 'alQaeda in Iraq' fables.
She accomplishes this by revealing what has been "linked" to what, and what is "believed", by mysterious unnamed officials.
She's embedded, all right. - Reply to this comment
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- radiob
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