NATO helicopter crash kills 16 people in Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

NATO helicopter crash kills 16 people in Afghanistan

By Hamid Shalizi and Jack Kimball

KABUL | Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:48am EDT

(Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, Turkey's military and a senior Afghan police official said.

The crash came amid growing unease among NATO partner countries about the increasingly unpopular and costly war nearly 11 years into the conflict as most foreign combat troops set to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

"Twelve of our military personnel on board the helicopter have been martyred," the Turkish general staff said in a statement in Ankara. A team had been sent to the scene to investigate, it said.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Can't we get any more unpopular in Afghanistan?

Daily we're wearing out our "welcome".