I haven't heard anything about that yet...
#$@!
cordon off the probably zone from which the rocket/missile came and do a house by house search. guilty until proven innocent.
I'll wait for a credible pro-American source.
Im surprised we havent lost more in a war like this.
Lets hope for the best.
Did I mention how much I hate Reuters?
U.S. helicopter shot down in Iraq - witnesses
BAGHDAD, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad on Monday, witnesses said.
They said they saw a rocket hit the helicopter. The U.S. military said it was checking the incident.
OH Crap Hal
Let me get guess terrorists
Curious where you got this, I checked all the reuters links on Drudge and nothing there. Is there another site with Reuters breaking news? Did you get this from the net/TV/ or from "personal" (work) sources?
Bomb blast and gunfire rocks central Baghdad
A bomb exploded near a convoy of civilian vehicles in Baghdad on Monday, triggering a shoot-out between Iraqi police and insurgents, but nobody was hurt in the violence, a police officer said.
The explosion was the first in the city centre after a week-long Muslim holiday lull.
Four four-wheel drive cars frequently used by foreign security contractors and diplomats to move around Baghdad were targeted in the attack, the police officer on the scene told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It was not immediately clear who had been travelling in the convoy, which appeared to have been escorted by two overhead helicopters.
"After the explosion, insurgents in a nearby building started shooting at the convoy," the police officer said.
"Iraqi police returned fire. We then stormed the building but were unable to find any of the culprits."
The bomb only caused minimal damage to one of the vehicles in the convoy, the officer said.
Earlier an interior ministry official said US and Iraqi forces had been involved in the shooting spree. A US military spokesman said he was looking into the report of the explosion.
In other violence, a policeman was killed in the north of the capital and one civilian and another policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the west of Baghdad.
On Sunday, police found the bodies of seven unidentified men shot dead in the capital.
military helicopter pilots have to be the bravest people in the world. sheesh these things are constantly falling out of the sky!
US helicopter crashes in Iraq
A US helicopter crashed north of Baghdad Monday, the US military said, adding that there was no immediate news of its two-man crew.
"A task force Ironside helicopter did go down this morning at 8:20 am, a spokesman said. "The status of the two-man crew is unknown at the moment."
The cause of the accident, a few miles (kilometres) north of the capital, is under investigation, he added.
Two US pilots were killed on Friday when their reconnaissance helicopter was apparently shot down in northern Iraq, while eight US soldiers and four civilians perished a week earlier when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed near the restive town of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq.
I thought you'd be amused at the ramblings of one of our very eloquent posters here.
I don't need to point out who it is...you'll figure it out in a heartbeat.
I figure you can always use a laugh. ;-)
Any word on what model the aircraft was?
Could you all stop the squabbling? I have a good friend who is a Blackhawk pilot over there and every time we lose a bird my stomach drops to the floor. You guy aren't helping.
LQ
Iraq Chopper Crash Kills Two U.S. Crewmen By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 25 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. military helicopter crashed north of the Iraqi capital Monday — the third American chopper to go down in 10 days — killing the two crew members. A resident said he saw the smoke trail of a missile before the aircraft plunged to the ground.
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The military said the AH-64 Apache was conducting a combat air patrol when it went down in an area "known for terrorist activity." Officials said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash, and the names of the dead soldiers were not released. Apaches hold only a pilot and a co-pilot.
Video footage shot by AP Television News in Mishahda, north of Baghdad, showed smoke billowing from what was reported to be the crash site. Other helicopters circled nearby.
Two militant groups claimed they shot down the helicopter. Neither claim could be verified.
Rashid Khalifa, 27, who has a food and drink stand in the area, said he saw the attack. "I saw the smoke trail left by the missile," he said. "I heard a hissing sound, looked around and saw the helicopter losing control before crashing down."
One of the claims of responsibility was made in a wobbly video posted on the Internet by a group calling itself the Mujahedeen Army. The video showed a militant firing a shoulder-launched missile toward what appeared to be a helicopter. The aircraft in the video was hit, burst into flames and crashed to the ground.
The other group that claimed it shot down the helicopter was the Salahudin al-Ayoubi Brigade. Both groups have carried out previous attacks.
The number of fatal U.S. military helicopter crashes in Iraq has spiked in recent weeks, fitting a wartime pattern of more frequent accidental and combat crashes during winter months.
An OH-58 Kiowa Warrior reconnaissance helicopter crashed near the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing two pilots. On Jan. 7, a Black Hawk with 12 aboard crashed in bad weather near the northern city of Tal Afar. All eight soldiers and four civilians aboard were killed.
The causes of those crashes have yet to be announced.
The overall safety record of Army and Marine Corps helicopters has been good, military officials and private analysts say, given the enormous amount of flying in often-harsh conditions.
Army helicopters have logged nearly 1 million flight hours since the Iraq war began in March 2003, with the UH-60 Black Hawk accounting for nearly one-third of the total, according to Army Aviation Warfighting Center records.
Seven Black Hawks have crashed during the war. The second-most heavily used Army helicopter, the AH-64 Apache, has crashed four times and the No. 3 helicopter, the Kiowa Warrior, has gone down seven times. Some were accidents, others were caused by hostile fire and some are still under investigation.
Everytime this happens, 5 bridges and 10 other "things" should blow up in Syria and Iran.