BAISA (Iraq): Guerillas shot down a US transport helicopter carrying troops on a recreation break near Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 13 in the bloodiest attack on US occupiers since Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
The crippled Chinook came down in farmland near this village, south of Fallujah, a stronghold of anti-US resistance 50km west of Baghdad.
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