Iraqi Villagers Celebrate U.S. Helicopter Hit

Mon November 3, 2003 08:50 AM ET

By Michael Georgy

BAISA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis in the village of Baisa say they couldn't have asked for a better present during Ramadan -- a U.S. helicopter shot down in their fields.

"We usually celebrate Ramadan at the end of the month. Now we are celebrating in the beginning after these infidel Americans were shot down," taxi driver Abdullah Hissein said.

As more U.S. helicopters patrolled over this typical Iraqi farming village on Monday, he said: "Now we want to take them down as well."

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These are the people we "liberated" in Iraq. And now we are spending billions of dollars to turn their lights back on.