From the Associated Press via Yahoo! News: "5 Americans killed in Iraq copter crash," by Steven R. Hurst--
A U.S. security company helicopter crashed Tuesday as it flew over a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in the central Baghdad where insurgents and Iraqi security troops fought a prolonged gunbattle, and a U.S. official said five American civilians on board were killed.
A senior Iraqi military official said the aircraft was shot down, but this was disputed by a U.S. military official in Washington. The Iraqi said the helicopter was hit by a machine gunner over the Fadhil neighborhood on the east side of the Tigris River, while the American official said there was no indication in initial reports that the aircraft, owned by Blackwater USA, had been shot down.
--Posted by Madison County Illinois work injury lawyers and Illinois work comp abogado (de accidentes de trabajo) T. Evan Schaeffer of the Madison County Illinois workers compensation law firm of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
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