Two choppers collide in the south, and a third goes down in the wake of a firefight in the west. Among the dead are three civilian contractors. KABUL, Afghanistan — Eleven U.S. troops and three American civilian contractors were killed in two separate helicopter crashes today, inflicting one of the war's heaviest one-day losses on U.S.
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