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US Says Four Recent Helicopter Downings in Iraq Result of Ground Fire
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=161799C:A6F02AD83191E1608965BD608B6EAE3F9574F7DCC14957C0 Meanwhile, Iraqi
police say bombings and shootings have killed at least 15 people in
Baghdad Sunday The U.S. military says all four of the American
helicopters that crashed in Iraq in the past two weeks appear to have
been shot down.

Major-General William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad Sunday the
investigation is ongoing but the military is already adjusting the way
it deploys helicopters in Iraq.







Smoke billows from the site of a Feb. 3 explosion in central Baghdad

Twenty one U.S. military personnel and private security contractors
died in the crashes.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police say bombings and shootings have killed at
least 15 people in Baghdad Sunday.  They include four policemen killed
by a roadside bomb, and another four people killed by a car bomb at a
bus station.

Those attacks came one day after a truck bomb attack killed more than
130 people at a market in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad.

In other news, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh is accusing
Syria of contributing to violence in Iraq by failing to stop militants
from crossing its border.

The Iraqi official says half of all attacks by Sunni extremists are
carried out by militants infiltrating from Syria.

Syria says it is doing all it can to police the border.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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