British Helicopter goes down "A British military helicopter apparently was hit by a missile Saturday and crashed in Basra, triggering a confront
May 5, 2006

British Helicopter goes down

"A British military helicopter apparently was hit by a missile Saturday and crashed in Basra, triggering a confrontation in which jubilant Iraqis pelted British troops with stones, hurled firebombs and shouted slogans in support of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric...The violence underscored that discontent over the presence of foreign soldiers has been growing among Iraq's majority Shiites even though they have generally steered clear of the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency...read on"

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