U.N. Observers' Helicopter Shot Down

Columbus Dispatch AP WIRE ^ | OCTOBER 08, 2001

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U.N. Observers' Helicopter Shot Down TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — An Mi-8 helicopter carrying six United Nations military observers and three crew members was shot down Monday over Georgia's breakaway Abkhazian region, an Abkhazian official said. There was no immediate information on casualties, said a spokesman for the Abkhazian Defense Ministry. Abkhazian officials claim that a group of Chechen and ethnic Georgian rebels have invaded the Khodor Gorge region of Abkhazia in recent days. Georgian government authorities claim no involvement in reported skirmishes there.

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Anyone else hear about this? I was watching the Sky News hour on FNC. With the Abu Sayyaf bombings, the Anthrax and other "isolated" incidents, I thought it might be of interest to my fellow FReepers.

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Seems I was just beaten to the punch! darn!

[GeronL]

this post has more info though

[petuniasevan]

LINK to other thread on this subject.

[amom]

For educational purposes...

Monday October 8 3:11 AM ET

U.N. Observers' Helicopter Shot Down

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - An Mi-8 helicopter carrying six United Nations (news - web sites) military observers and three crew members was shot down Monday over Georgia's breakaway Abkhazian region, an Abkhazian official said.

There was no immediate information on casualties, said a spokesman for the Abkhazian Defense Ministry.

Abkhazian officials claim that a group of Chechen and ethnic Georgian rebels have invaded the Khodor Gorge region of Abkhazia in recent days. Georgian government authorities claim no involvement in reported skirmishes there.

[lelio]

Just saw a quick blurb on msnbc.com about a plane shot down in Italy, anyone know more?