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BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (KUNA) -- US Army announced on Tuesday that a chopper,
which crashed in northern Baghdad, actually had an emergency landing due to a
technical malfunction and not as a result of an attack.
Two other choppers evacuated the crew of the busted chopper to a nearby
military base and secured the area, Press Coordinator at the Multinational
Force in Iraq Abdulatif Rayyan told KUNA.
Earlier today, tribe leaders Sheikh Khalaf Al-Dulaimi and Talib Al-Majmaie
told KUNA that the chopper went down in al-Nibaie area at noon Tuesday, and at
the same time a search operation was conducted in near by villages, resulting
in the arrest of 30 suspects. (end)
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