Four helicopter crash victims were shot in head

Four of the five Americans killed when a US security company’s helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighbourhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in the back the head, Iraqi and US officials said today.

Four helicopter crash victims were shot in head

Four of the five Americans killed when a US security company’s helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighbourhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in the back the head, Iraqi and US officials said today.

A senior Iraqi military official said a machine gunner downed the helicopter, but a US military official in Washington said there were no indications that the aircraft, owned by Blackwater USA, had been shot out of the sky.

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