Breaking on CNN: Another chopper down outside Baghdad

[Guaranteed]

More to come.

[Dookus]

1. sigh....

it just keeps going....

[Wonco_the_Sane]

2. Man i need to get cable again

Had it for a year and got rid of it again :(


Bartender salary! I hope that's the last chopper we loose. Too bad it won't be!! Man.. Re-elect Pres. Hope.

[caledesi]

3. How much more Mr. Bush*? How much more? nt

[Guaranteed]

4. Still no real details but Fox News

has a banner up on their website. It was only mentioned very, very briefly on CNN. It sounds like it's an Apache, this time...that's actually a good thing because it means less soldiers.

[Guaranteed]

5. Here's a link to Fox News

or you can wait if you don't want to give them hits.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108212,00.html

BAGHDAD — A U.S. Apache helicopter (search) crashed near Habbaniyah (search) on Tuesday, Fox News has confirmed. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties, or if the chopper was brought down by enemy fire or not.


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That's all they have so far anyway.

[Newsjock]

6. Reuters link

Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. Apache helicopter crashed west of Baghdad Tuesday but there was no immediate information on why it came down and whether there were any casualties, a U.S. military spokesman said.

The helicopter, which usually carries a crew of two, crashed around 9:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. EST) near the town of Habbaniya, about 50 miles west of the capital. The area is known for attacks by guerrillas on coalition forces.

[Guaranteed]

8. Thanks...

I hate linking to Fox News.

[0007]

15. screw Faux

[Dookus]

7. aargh...

the newsbimbo on CNN twice repeated "a blackhawk has gone down", but the accompanying graphic said "Apache".


On edit: now CNN is reporting that nobody's reported what type of helicopter it is, nor how many people were on it.

[pinniped]

9. MSNBC banner says Apache but who really knows...

No accompanying story.

[Sapphocrat]

10. Here it is:

Not much, but something...

BAGHDAD — A U.S. Apache helicopter crashed near Habbaniyah on Tuesday, Fox News has confirmed. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties, or if the chopper was brought down by enemy fire.

The area, about 50 miles west of Baghdad, has a history of guerrilla attacks on coalition forces. ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108212,00.html

[AnnitaR]

11. When is this freakin' country going to wake up?????

How many more have to die? What will it take to make people understand what that evil man has done?

God help us all if he gets four more years!

:cry:

[spinbaby]

12. It's as if it never happened

...can't find mention of this on TV anywhere.

On edit: Yahoo said no one was hurt. This may explain why it's no longer being mentioned.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_helicopter_down&cid=540&ncid=716

[classics]

13. These choppers are becoming the Ford Pintos of the air.

How many chopper crashes in Afganistan and Iraq now... 15, 20?

[Spentastic]

14. BBC reports no injuries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3392211.stm

Will someone explain why noone is allowed to say "shot down" anymore?

[leftchick]

16. MSRNC says...

it was shot down and no injuries....

[Guaranteed]

18. LOL as long as there aren't any injuries,

it's alright to say that it was shot down.

[dusty64]

17. It sure sounds

like we are all safer now that the "war" is over.

[Name removed]

23. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[htuttle]

25. Boy, that message gets around

I found almost 100 copies of it on different sites with Google.

Wonder which PR officer wrote it?

[PaDUer]

29. Some looney

marine?

[Guaranteed]

26. "I am speaking about what the Bush Administration and each of you has

contributed..."

LOL!! The Bushees hardly even pay taxes anymore- they certainly wouldn't pick up an M-16 to do any dirty work.

[iam]

27. Yes but...

The liar in chief said we were there to protect America, to disarm SH, to secure WMD SH was going to give to al-qaida. How does opening a school in Iraq do these things? It doesn't. It seems as though you agree dumbya is a worthless liar and are pointing out that in your post. Nothing he said has come true regarding reasons to start this war that killed almost 500 service men and women as well as thousands of innocent Iraqis. Let's see you sacrifice your children for functioning sewers in Iraq.

[leftchick]

28. wow!

I bet all of the THOUSANDS of dead, maimed and orphaned Iraqis are
fucking thrilled!! Go spin your faux shit somewhere else...
:eyes:

[daleo]

19. People die falling off of step ladders

I find it hard to believe that there can be no injuries from a helicopter crash. Perhaps posters with military experience may have some insight for the rest of us.

[htuttle]

20. It's those new Invincibility Powerups

Pioneered in Afghanistan, they appear to work great.

[PaDUer]

30. Another

"under investigation" comment, which is BS..they're trying to figure out which family is stupid enough to believe them!

[DrWeird]

21. Isn't this how the Afghanis fought off the Soviets?

How often did the Soviets lose helicopters?

[Bandit]

22. Are the people who make the Apache and Blackhawks cheering?

This is good for business right. How much do thoise things cost? 5-10 million a piece. The war machine keeps on churning. Hey fifty people have a job who cares if a GI or two die..... right???

[Danieljay]

24. U.S. Copter Shot Down in Iraq; update (civilians shot)

Winning the hearts and minds...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_532

FALLUJAH, Iraq - An Army Apache attack helicopter was shot down Tuesday, the third downed in less than two weeks, though the crew escaped unharmed. U.S. troops reacting to attacks opened fire and killed four civilians, including a woman and a young boy, in separate incidents, witnesses said.

snip

In the volatile town of Fallujah, north of the capital, hundreds of Iraqis protested in the streets, shouting "Bush, you coward!" after U.S. troops detained a young woman while searching for a Saddam Hussein

snip

Two incidents in Fallujah and Baghdad were the latest in a growing number of cases of civilians being shot by U.S. soldiers.

snip

They identified the dead as Sahar Adnan, a 33-year-old woman shot inside the home of her sister, and Ahmed Naji, 37, who was driving a car. His brother and father were seriously injured, police Capt. Taha al-Falahi said.

snip

In Baghdad the day before, a roadside bomb went off near a U.S. checkpoint, hitting a U.S. Humvee and killing a soldier. Soliders in another Humvee started shooting, hitting a car carrying civilians, said Wijdan Abdel Wahab, a relative of the car's passengers.

snip

"The Americans have ruined an innocent family, children and women," Abdel Wahab said, distraught and weeping at the hospital. "They didn't even bother to look back at them after shooting them."


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