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.

How can you say it's "good news" that a heliocopter was shot down. Then you give yourself the name Patriot.

I know you have anger at the US for its aggression but we, i.e. the peace movement, must condemn all acts of violence and warfare and know the only good news will be when this carnage ends.

You should spend more time seeking true inner peace instead of cheering one side over the other.

...bring them home. Let Bush, Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, and Wolfoshitz go conquer their own God Damned Oil Field. Leave our Brave Defenders out of their machinations.

May God look after them and bring them home safe.

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