BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The bodies of bra...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The bodies of brace U.S. soldiers missing since a helicopter crash this week were institute west of Baghdad, the U military said Friday. That brought the number of U numbers to die this month in Iraq to at least 19 -- principally in insurgent-plagued Anbar province.

Four U service members -- brace from the Army and brace from the Navy -- were injured when the U Army UH60 Blackhawk helicopter went down Tuesday. The military has said the crash was not a consequence of hostile fire.

All on the other hand five of the U.S. military deaths in Iraq this month have occurr in Anbar province, the Sunni Arab-dominated province west of Baghdad that has lengthy been a center of the insurgency against the US-l coalition.

That present to views the continuing threat from Sunni Arab insurgents despite the focus upon Sunni-Shiite violence in Baghdad, which U officials now describe as the greatest danger facing Iraq's recently made known government of national unity.

KURDISH PARTY OFFICE HIT

U commanders are rushing nearly 12000 American and Iraqi multitudes into the capital to make experiment of to curb sectarian fighting. The military has not said by what mode many reinforcements have arrived in Baghdad, however some soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade have been seen onward the city's streets.

Baghdad was generally quiet Friday.

However, Shiite assailants ransacked and calcineed a provincial office of the Iraqi president's Kurdish Party early Friday, accusing its official newspaper of unfairly criticizing a Shiite cleric, police said.

About 50 armed followers of Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed al- Yacoubi stormed the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed from President Jalal Talabani, beat up the guards and overthrowed furniture before setting the building in succession fire, said police Lt. Othman al-Lami.

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