What's going on: 9 Western troops killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

From Los Angeles Times: Nine Western service members died Tuesday in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, making this the deadliest year for NATO in the nine-year war. Military officials did not immediately disclose the nationalities of the dead or say precisely where the crash happened. Two other Western troops, an Afghan soldier and an American civilian were injured,...

Brennan Linsley / The Associated Press, 2001In this September 11, 2010 photo, a crew chief looks out the open back of a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter over Zhari district, southern Afghanistan. Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010, after their helicopter crashed in southern Zabul province where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.

From Los Angeles Times:

Nine Western service members died Tuesday in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, making this the deadliest year for NATO in the nine-year war.

Military officials did not immediately disclose the nationalities of the dead or say precisely where the crash happened. Two other Western troops, an Afghan soldier and an American civilian were injured, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement. ...

Combat deaths in June and July had spiked to the highest levels of the conflict. With Tuesday's crash, according to icasualties.org, 529 members of the international force have been killed this year. The previous high was 2009, when 521 Western troops were killed, according to the website's tally.

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