Manjit Taunque (L) receives a U.S. flag from Army Brig. General Mark O'Neill during the burial ceremony of U.S. Army Sgt. Uday Singh at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, January 8, 2004. Singh was killed December 1, 2003 while on patrol in Habbaniyah, Iraq . REUTERS/William Philpott
A U.S. Army Kiowa scout helicopter searches the farm fields near the crash site after a Blackhawk helicopter crashed near the restive central Iraq town of Falluja, January 8, 2004. All nine U.S. soldiers aboardwere killed. It was not immediately clear if the helicopter had been shot down. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz
Smoke billows from a US military UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter outside Nuamiya.
Sadiq Zoman Abrahim, 55 years old, lies in a coma in Tikrit hospital.
7 January 2003 -- Sadiq Zoman Abrahim, 55 years old, was detained this past August in Kirkuk by US Soldiers during a home raid which produced no weapons. He was taken to the police office in Kirkuk, questioned by the Americans there, then transferred to Kirkuk Airport Detention Center.
U.S. President George W. Bush makes a point during remarks with school teachers and education officials at West View Elementary School in Knoxville, Tennessee, January 8, 2004. Bush visited the school on the second anniversary of his No Child Left Behind education policy. REUTERS/Jason Reed
U.S. President George W. Bush waves to supporters as his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, applauds at the end of a Bush-Cheney 2004 election fundraising speech in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida January 8, 2004. Bush attended re-election fund-raisers in Knoxville, Tennessee and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, raising $1 million at each stop.
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A U.S. Black Hawk medivac helicopter crashed Thursday near this stronghold of the anti-American insurgency, killing all nine soldiers aboard, the U.S. military said. A witness said the helicopter, which bore red crosses, was hit in the tail by a rocket.
At Baghdad International Airport, meanwhile, an Air Force C-5 transport plane with 63 passengers and crew aboard made an emergency landing, and a senior official at the Pentagon said the plane was hit by hostile fire.
The military also said a U.S. soldier died Wednesday of injuries suffered in a mortar attack that wounded 33 other troops and a civilian west of Baghdad.
In the meantime, Bush attended re-election fund-raisers in Knoxville, Tennessee and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, raising $1 million at each stop.