NATO Helicopter Shot Down 31 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan

Soldiers take positions after racing off the back of a Chinook helicopter in November 2008. A Chinook went down Saturday in the Sayedabad district of Wardak province. (David Furst, AFP/Getty Images / August 6, 2011)

Chopper Crash Kills 31 U.S. Troops, 7 Afghans -- L.A. Times

The helicopter downing, possibly by a rocket-propelled grenade, could be the largest loss of military lives in the course of the nearly 10-year-old war.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Thirty-one American troops and seven Afghans were killed in the overnight downing of a NATO helicopter, President Hamid Karzai's office said Saturday. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the craft.

The deaths are thought to represent the largest loss of military lives in a single incident in the course of the nearly 10-year-old war.

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