Iraqis celebrate near an Apache military helicopter
in the Hindiya district, 120 km south-west of Baghdad, March 24, 2003.
Iraq said on Monday that Iraqi farmers had shot down two U.S. helicopters
south of Baghdad and vowed to show the pilots on television, just
as it did with other captured and killed soldiers on Sunday. A U.S.
defense official in Washington confirmed that one Apache Longbow helicopter
was down in Iraq. He made no comment on the Iraqi claims that a second
attack helicopter had been brought down and had no information on
the fate of the pilots.