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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (36161)	1/25/2004 9:55:50 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Respond to of 89467

Pilots missing in Iraq after U.S. chopper crash Sunday, January 25, 2004 Posted: 6:40 PM EST (2340 GMT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two pilots of a crashed U.S. Army helicopter were missing Sunday, after they crashed into the Tigris River near downtown Mosul in northern Iraq, a U.S. military source said. The OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter was on a search-and-rescue mission for a another U.S. soldier who was reported missing after his patrol boat capsized. Two Iraqi police officers and an Iraqi translator were killed and three U.S. soldiers were rescued in the boat incident. Military officials said an investigation was under way into the cause of the helicopter crash. The helicopter was attached to the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, officials said. Rocket-propelled grenade attack kills soldier In the central Iraqi town of Beiji, just north of Tikrit, Sunday a U.S. soldier died of wounds suffered the previous night when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle, a U.S. military source said. The soldier, whose name has not been released, was assigned to the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, the military source said. The soldier was riding in Bradley fighting vehicle when a RPG slammed into it. Other soldiers in the patrol convoy returned fire against the attackers and captured six suspected insurgents, the military source said. The critically wounded soldier was taken to the 28th Combat Support Hospital where he died hours later after surgery, the source said. Beiji is in Iraq's so-called Sunni Triangle, the volatile region north and west of Baghdad, where many of the deaths have occurred. Five U.S. soldiers and four Iraqi civilians were killed Saturday in three separate bomb attacks in the Sunni Triangle, U.S. military officials said. (Full story) Insurgents have been active all week in the Sunni Triangle -- where three attacks in a 24-hour period Wednesday and Thursday killed nine people, including two U.S. soldiers. The latest death brings the total of U.S. soldiers killed in the war to 512.