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On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq.
Saeed Chmagh (Arabic: سعيد شماغ) (January 1, 1967 – July 12, 2007) [1] was an Iraqi employed by Reuters news agency as a driver and camera assistant. [1] [2] He was killed, [3] along with his colleague Namir Noor-Eldeen, [4] by American military forces in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad, Iraq, during an airstrike on July 12, 2007.
28 July – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in a sandstorm. All five crew-members are killed. [10]17 April – A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, 95–26648, belonging to the 3-158th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade crashes on infill about 12 miles (19 km) north of Tikrit while executing an 8 ship air assault at night. 1 U.S. service member killed and 3 crew ...
Original - Video footage taken from the gun camera of a US Apache helicopter on active duty in Iraq and showing the killing of people whom the U.S. military regarded as Iraqi insurgents. Originally shown on ABC TV on January 9, 2004.
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One Apache was brought down and crash-landed in a marsh. Combat search-and-rescue aircraft were unable to reach the crash site due to the heavy antiaircraft fire. The two crew, CWO Ronald Young Jr. and CWO David Williams, attempted to evade Iraqi forces by swimming down a canal.
Noor-Eldeen was born on September 1, 1984, in Mosul, Iraq. [3] [4] He developed an interest in photography and video from his family, and started training in those crafts.He was one of the first photographers trained by the Reuters news agency as part of a strategy to employ photojournalists with strong local knowledge and access to areas considered too dangerous for Western photographers to ...
Footage from the gun camera of a US Apache helicopter killing 3 suspected Iraqi insurgents near al-Taji. [25] Originally shown on ABC TV. Video footage from the gun camera of a U.S. Apache helicopter in Iraq, showing the killing of suspected Iraqi insurgents, was aired on ABC TV. [26] The case sparked controversy due to the ambiguity of the video.