One US soldier is dead, another wounded, after the military says
their OH-58 Kiowa helicopter (file photo of type, below) was downed
by groundfire near the Iraqi town of Fallujah Friday.
It was the third time in as many months that an American military
helicopter had been shot down in that particular part of the
so-called "Sunni Triangle," where Saddam Hussein loyalists and
Iraqi resitance fighters seem concentrated. This time, US officials
aren't yet certain what type of weapon was used to bring down the
helicopter. But one witness, an Iraqi farmer, says he saw the Kiowa
hovering over a group of US soldiers sweeping an area for mines at
around noon.
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