Good news from Iraq!

by Patriot Friday, Mar. 28, 2003 at 10:28 AM

Good news! Iraqi's shoot down another U.S. helicopter!


Jazeera TV Shows Downed U.S. Helicopter in Iraq

DUBAI (Reuters) - The al-Jazeera Arab satellite television channel showed pictures of a U.S. helicopter which it said had been shot down over Iraq (news - web sites) on Thursday.

The Qatar-based channel broadcast footage of a helicopter with U.S. military markings surrounded by Iraqi men waving rifles. It also showed pictures of what Jazeera said was a downed U.S. pilotless drone.

Jazeera said the helicopter was an Apache shot down in the mid-Euphrates region of Iraq. It gave no details of the fate of the crew. U.S. officials had no immediate comment.

Iraq said Monday that farmers had shot down two U.S. helicopters south of Baghdad, and showed television pictures of a downed helicopter and its captured two-man crew.

The Pentagon (news - web sites) confirmed after that incident that one AH-64 Apache attack helicopter had gone down in Iraq. On Tuesday, U.S. military officials said the helicopter had been subsequently destroyed by U.S. forces.


The two crew of the helicopter that went down on Monday -- Chief Warrant Officer David Williams, 30, from Florida, and Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young Jr., 26, of Lithia Springs, Georgia -- are now officially listed as prisoners of war.