Baghdad February 11, 2007 - A U.S. helicopter - the seventh in three weeks - has fallen in Iraq. The inhabitants of Timayma near Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad, reported seeing a missile hit a 'Apache', anti-tank helicopter not equipped to counter-insurgency and therefore vulnerable to fire from the ground.
U.S. commanders in Iraq said it was checking the news.
A Taji is a major U.S. air base. the killing of seven helicopters in less than twenty days has alarmed the U.S. military command that has developed new tactics to put the resources away from the fire ground.
The Pentagon has ruled that there is a link between these incidents, but among U.S. forces deployed in Iraq is widely believed that the guerrillas are equipped with a sophisticated anti-aircraft weapon of the old 'Stinger' and rocket launchers on their shoulders .
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