Iraqi Mujahideen shot down a US helicopter in the Makr adh-Dhib area near al-Qa'im in western Iraq not far from the Syrian borderon Tuesday night, October 17, 2006. Local residents said that they had seen a surface-to-air rocket strike the US Apache helicopter, which then crashed to earth. The nighttime curfew was in effect at the hour when the news first surfaced, making it impossible to obtain further details, other than the fact that swarms of US helicopters were prowling the area over al-Qa'im at the time of reporting, the Al Basrah reported.
Meanwhile, a US soldier was killed by an Iraqi Mujahideen sharpshooter's bullet in the middle of Baghdad's al-A‘zamiyah district on Tuesday morning.
Eight powerful explosions shook the US al-Warrar base on the Euphrates River west of ar-Ramadi. Flame and smoke could be seen rising over the American-occupied facility after the explosion as sirens wailed inside base. Explosions continued to shake the area one after another after the initial eight blasts.
Iraqi Mujahideen forces fired a mortar barrage at the US base in as-Saqlawiyah, about 15km northwest of al-Fallujah at dawn on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses as said that for the second time in two consecutive days, the Resistance blasted the American base with mortars, scoring direct hits that set off massive explosions and sent plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
An Iraqi Mujahideen bomb exploded by a US military patrol in the middle of al-Falluja. The bomb that had been planted next to the main road in the ad-Dubbat neighborhood of the city blew up by a US patrol as it entered the city. The explosion disabled a US Humvee, but the precise nature and extent of American casualties was unknown because US force quickly surrounded the area and hauled away the damaged vehicle.
US warplanes blast three houses in ar-Ramadi Tuesday morning, killing four children and their mother.
US warplanes also blasted a house in ar-Ramadi Monday night, killing family of six.
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