Iraq: US military says...Officials say...US statement said
ap: The military says a rebel safe house is in rubble and 12 militants are dead after a U-S raid in Iraq. A statement says U-S-led forces hit the suspected safe house near where an American helicopter went down April First. Officials think it was shot down.
The military didn't say if any of the people killed at the safe house are suspected in the helicopter crash.
The military says intelligence led soldiers to the site, where they came under fire. The statement says U-S forces fought back with air support.
Officials say five militants, including one with a shoulder-fired rocket, were killed outside the house. Officials say the bodies of another seven heavily armed militants and an unidentified woman were in the wreckage of the home.
The military says troops also found explosives vests used by suicide bombers, hand grenades and ammunition. Read more
db: My hunch is this: whatever happened it didn't happen as reported by US military sources.
The military didn't say if any of the people killed at the safe house are suspected in the helicopter crash.
The military says intelligence led soldiers to the site, where they came under fire. The statement says U-S forces fought back with air support.
Officials say five militants, including one with a shoulder-fired rocket, were killed outside the house. Officials say the bodies of another seven heavily armed militants and an unidentified woman were in the wreckage of the home.
The military says troops also found explosives vests used by suicide bombers, hand grenades and ammunition. Read more
db: My hunch is this: whatever happened it didn't happen as reported by US military sources.
posted by exoplanet at 11:35 PM
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