THE KILLING OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS THEY ALSO HUMANBEING WHY THOUSAND OF MAN BEING KILLED IN USELESS WARS

Coalition deaths in Afghanistan by country

 USA: 2,084^*
 UK: 440
 Canada: 158^*
 France: 88
 Germany: 56
 Italy: 52
 Denmark: 43
 Australia: 39
 Poland: 38
 Spain: 36^*
 Netherlands: 25
 Romania: 20
 Georgia: 19
 Turkey: 14
 New Zealand: 10
 Norway: 10
 Estonia: 9
 Hungary: 7
 Sweden: 5
 Czech Republic: 5
 Latvia: 3
 Finland: 2
 Jordan: 2
 Portugal: 2
 South Korea: 2
 Albania: 1
 Belgium: 1
 Lithuania: 1
TOTAL: 3,171

COALITION CASULAITIES IN IRAQ

A US Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter takes off from the Baraki Barak Joint Combat Outpost (JCOP) in Logar Province, in this file photo. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)

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By MUHAMMAD LILA (@muhammadlila) and MARTHA RADDATZ (@martharaddatz)

Aug. 16, 2012

Seven American troops, three sailors and four soldiers, were killed in a fiery helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO reported.
The troops were on a mission in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar Thursday morning when the helicopter, a Blackhawk UH-60, went down. Three Afghan troops and one Afghan civilian interpreter were also on board and died in the crash.
Two U.S. military officials told ABC News they are "leaning toward" believing the helicopter was shot down.
As soon as it crashed, enemy combatants headed for the site. A second U.S. helicopter arrived and the enemy was repelled from the air.

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The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying one of its fighters shot down the aircraft. The International Security and Assistance Force in Afghanistan would not confirm the aircraft had been shot down, but two hours before it announced the crash, a Taliban spokesperson tweeted that it had been shot down. The Kandahar governor's office also sent out a tweet referring to the aircraft as being "shot down."
"This happened in the enemy's backyard," said a U.S. military official.
The bodies of the seven Americans and four Afghans killed in the crash have all been recovered.
"I offer my sincere condolences to the loved ones and friends of 10 of these brave service members and their civilian colleague who lost their lives today," ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz said today in a videotaped statement.