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To: JakeStraw who wrote (506532)	12/9/2003 10:11:56 AM
From: jackhach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

U.S. copter reported shot down in Iraq Dec. 9, 2003 \| BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Guerrillas firing a rocket-propelled grenade shot down a U.S. helicopter Tuesday near the town of Fallujah west of Baghdad, witnesses said. The U.S. military said was trying to confirm reports of the incident. Witnesses, asking not to be identified, said two helicopters were flying in formation near Fallujah, 30 miles west of the capital, when one was hit by a grenade fired from the ground. It crashed immediately, the witness said. Fallujah, a hotbed of resistance to the U.S. occupation, sits in the heart of the dangerous Sunni Triangle, where the majority of attacks on American forces have occurred. Elsewhere Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives at the gates of a military barracks, injuring 41 American troops and six Iraqi civilians. Hours earlier, three soldiers died in a road accident in central Iraq, and three civilians died when a Baghdad mosque was rocketed. The attack at the army base occurred at 4:45 a.m. local time when a car drove to the gate of the base in Talafar, 30 miles west of the northern city of Mosul. Guards at the gate and in a watchtower opened fire on the vehicle and moments later it blew up, leaving a large crater at the gate's entryway. Later Tuesday, another suicide bomber blew himself up outside a U.S. Army compound near Baghdad, lightly injuring two soldiers, the U.S. military said. Giving a boost to the U.S.-led occupation, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to send about 1,000 soldiers to help in Iraq's reconstruction in that nation's biggest overseas troop deployment since World War II. Associated Press