- The US military has released three Iraqis working for
Reuters and one employed by the US network NBC after detaining them last
week following the downing of a US helicopter in Fallujah.
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- Reuters described its team -- Baghdad-based cameraman
Salem Uraiby and a Fallujah-based freelance cameraman and driver -- as
shaken and exhausted after their three-day detention which ended Monday.
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- The news agency confirmed an NBC employee had been released
alongside its staff.
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- An OH-58 Delta Kiowa reconnaissance aircraft was brought
down by rebels on the outskirts of the restive western town Friday afternoon
as it assisted a US military raid on the outskirts of the volatile town.
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- Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the coalition's deputy
director of operations, told reporters Friday five people wearing black
vests marked "press" pulled up at the scene of the crash and
began firing rocket-propelled grenades, adding that they were chased by
US troops, who captured four of them.
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- Reuters later said three of its employees had been detained
by US troops at the crash site and had earlier been shot at by US soldiers.
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