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ISAF helicopter crashed in Afghanistan: Cougar downed by rocket?

Kabul, Afghanistan - The victims were members of a contingent engaged to provide security for next September's election

Spanish Defence Minister, Josè Bono, does not exclude that the Cougar AS-532 helicopter of the Afghanistan peacekeeping force crashed in the area of Herat yesterday killing 17 soldiers from Spanish contingent engaged in the NATO-led ISAF mission, was downed by enemy fire. ISAF stated that the accident’s cause is yet unknown, but an investigation is expected to make clear it. Rescue operations have be...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 125315
Rome, Italy, 08/17/2005 13:07
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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