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   From: reality@check.it   
      
   DEA personnel among 14 dead in Afghan copter crashes   
   STORY HIGHLIGHTS   
     a.. NEW: Three were the first DEA personnel to be killed in Afghanistan   
     b.. Seven U.S. service members and three U.S. civilians were killed in one   
   crash   
     c.. Four other U.S. service members killed when two copters collided   
   Monday   
     d.. In the crashes, 28 others injured, including one U.S. civilian   
   Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Three Drug Enforcement Administration personnel   
   were among 14 Americans killed when three helicopters went down in   
   Afghanistan on Monday, a law enforcement source said.   
      
   They were the first DEA personnel to be killed in Afghanistan. NATO's   
   International Security Assistance Force said that in all, 10 people died in   
   one incident and four in the other.   
      
   It was the largest number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in a single day   
   in more than four years, according to CNN records.   
      
   ISAF ruled out enemy fire in the crash that killed four Americans and said   
   that enemy action was not thought to be the cause of the other.   
      
   A helicopter went down in the west of the country after a raid on suspected   
   drug traffickers. Seven U.S. service members and three U.S. civilians were   
   killed, according to an ISAF statement. Fourteen Afghan service members, 11   
   U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were injured in the crash.   
      
   The helicopter was returning from a raid on a compound, ISAF had said   
   earlier.   
      
   The joint international security force killed more than a dozen enemy   
   fighters while searching the compound, ISAF said. The site was thought to   
   harbor insurgents tied to narcotics trafficking in western Afghanistan.   
      
   The militants were killed in a firefight when insurgents confronted the   
   joint force.   
      
   As the force was leaving, a helicopter "went down due to unconfirmed   
   reasons," ISAF said. A recovery operation was launched.   
      
   In Monday's other deadly crash, four U.S. service members were killed when   
   two helicopters apparently collided in the air in southern Afghanistan. Two   
   other NATO service members were injured.   
      
   "The incident is currently being investigated, but it is confirmed that   
   hostile fire was not involved," ISAF said in an earlier news release.   
      
   "Each and every death is a tremendous loss for the family and friends of   
   each service member and civilian. Our grief is compounded when we have such   
   a significant loss on one day," Col. Wayne Shanks, an ISAF spokesman, said   
   in a written statement.   
      
   ISAF is not announcing the names of the dead or which branch of the service   
   they were in, pending the notification of their relatives, ISAF told CNN via   
   e-mail.   
      
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