Helicopter down in Baghdad; 5 killed

AP via Yahoo ^ | 1/23/07 | KIM GAMEL

[oceanview]

the insurgents have begun their "surge" - when does ours begin?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Surges take awhile when we are on the other side of the Globe...sides Congress is trying to decide if they like it...

[TexKat]

Helicopter down in Baghdad; 5 killed ping.

[encm(ss)]

Nice of the AP to include 4 year old info in the news. Thanks you AP's. I hope you have to live with crabs.

[oceanview]

we could be using air power, while waiting for troops to arrive and assemble.

[TexKat]

On my way to a wake, I will miss the State of the Union speech. Please keep me pinged. Thanks

[TexKat]

May God give comfort to the family and love ones that perished.

[CindyDawg]

What do we have to do to make the good guys put the hurt on the bad guys for even thinking about doing something like this against us?

[MARKUSPRIME]

Seems that they are geting more SA-7's. Probably the russians,iranians,and chinese are all supplying them. Im so sick of this. We need to pound all the aggressors and let the chips fall whee they may.

[encm(ss)]

CindyDawg, you have the greatest screen name.

[nwctwx]

Sounds like it's turning into Afghanistan when the Soviets fought there.

[presidio9]

What is this doing in "Breaking News?" This story was up on FR over eight hours ago.

[CindyDawg]

:')

[leadpenny]

A very good chance these Blackwater employees were former special ops types from any one of the armed services.

May they rest in peace.

[leadpenny]

Navy, some of us like the background info AP provides.

Crabs? I hope that's not experience speaking? ;)

[FreedomNeocon]

This is 2 shot down now?

What altitude are they flying at? Small arms fire downing them???

I read that some shoulder fired rocket was used against the earlier one. I also remember Russia selling iran shoulder fired rockets to iran and us "warning" them that we better not see them in use in Iraq.

I wonder....

[maica]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771813/posts

U.S. says killed 93 Qaeda-linked fighters in Iraq
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 1/22/07 | Reuters

Posted on 01/22/2007 4:04:20 PM EST by NormsRevenge

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Have you seen this thread?

[squarebarb]

Since this is AP and their source is a Baghdadi I am really dubious about the facts...

[wrench]

"What altitude are they flying at? Small arms fire downing them???"


Helicopters fly very low to limit their exposure to groundfire.

During their war in Afganistan, we supplied the mujahadeen with something like 2,000 stingers. It looks like Iran is a student of history and is doing to us what we did to the USSR.