(New York Times) An American Chinook helicopter was shot down just outside Falluja on Sunday, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 20 others in the deadliest attack on American troops since the U.S. invaded Iraq in March. Another missile narrowly missed a second Chinook. In the last 10 days, at least 31 American soldiers have been killed. Saddam Hussein's army had thousands of surface-to-air missiles. Guerrillas are known to have fired missiles at American planes two or three times a week, and ground fire at helicopters is even more frequent.
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