[Fairview]

Will they stop calling these infested piles of dung "the holy city"? These places are no more holy than the local landfill. They are Christless, lightless, unholy, Satanic hellholes where evil is celebrated and I am sick of hearing the lie that they are in any way holy.

[benjamin032]

What pisses me off is the ghoulish tone of this, and so many other articles. It is as if the media are happy that someone has saved them from a slow news day. The counting of the dead, the comparisons, the statistics.
Why don't they count the 3000 from 9-11? Do they report that no one in the US died from a terrorist attack today?

[Red Steel]

Lt. Col. Josslyn Aberle, a U.S. spokeswoman, said the cause of the crash had not been determined. Navy Capt. Frank Pascual, a member of a U.S. media relations team in the United Arab Emirates, told Al-Arabiya television that the helicopter was believed to have suffered technical troubles before going down.

The crash that claimed 13 American lives appears to be a mishap and not from enemy action.