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U.S. Plane Apparently Hit by Missile
Aired December 10, 2003 - 13:03 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, it's been an especially violent 36 hours in Iraq, beginning with an apparent missile strike on a USC- 17, near Baghdad International Airport.
CNN's Nic Robertson has the latest on that and more from the Spanish point in the capital -- Nic.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, that C-17 aircraft hit about 4:00 in the morning, it would have been dark here in Baghdad on Tuesday when that happened. Now, according to the coalition, it was apparently hit by a missile. One engine burst into flames, the aircraft returned to the ground safely. Nobody aboard hurt in that incident.
Eyewitnesses say they thought they saw something being fired, something going up into the air towards the aircraft. Certainly there have been instances recently where missiles have been fired at aircraft. About two weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago, one aircraft indeed appeared to have been hit, a DHL cargo aircraft. But that C-17 returning to ground safely.
In the north, Mosul, two U.S. soldiers killed there today, one in a drive-by shooting, as he patrolled a petrol line.
Another soldier killed when an improvised explosive device, a roadside bomb when the off next to his patrol. Three other soldiers with him injured at the same time.
Also in Mosul, an Apache helicopter forced to make a controlled landing. The coalitions say that the auxiliary power unit on board the helicopter burst into flames, forcing it to make that lading about nine miles outside of Mosul. They say, however, that, in the initial reports at least, there were no reports of fire from the ground when the Apache took that fire in the auxiliary power unit. And in Baghdad today, the Governing Council announcing that it will form a War Crimes Tribunal that could in fact try Saddam Hussein in absentia for his crimes. Other person who may face more immediate trial could be Chemical Ali, Ali Hassan Al-Majeed, who is to believed to have been responsible for the chemical attacks on the Kurds that killed at least 5,000 Kurds back in 1988 -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: All right, Nic Robertson, live from Baghdad. Thank you.
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Aired December 10, 2003 - 13:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, it's been an especially violent 36 hours in Iraq, beginning with an apparent missile strike on a USC- 17, near Baghdad International Airport.
CNN's Nic Robertson has the latest on that and more from the Spanish point in the capital -- Nic.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, that C-17 aircraft hit about 4:00 in the morning, it would have been dark here in Baghdad on Tuesday when that happened. Now, according to the coalition, it was apparently hit by a missile. One engine burst into flames, the aircraft returned to the ground safely. Nobody aboard hurt in that incident.
Eyewitnesses say they thought they saw something being fired, something going up into the air towards the aircraft. Certainly there have been instances recently where missiles have been fired at aircraft. About two weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago, one aircraft indeed appeared to have been hit, a DHL cargo aircraft. But that C-17 returning to ground safely.
In the north, Mosul, two U.S. soldiers killed there today, one in a drive-by shooting, as he patrolled a petrol line.
Another soldier killed when an improvised explosive device, a roadside bomb when the off next to his patrol. Three other soldiers with him injured at the same time.
Also in Mosul, an Apache helicopter forced to make a controlled landing. The coalitions say that the auxiliary power unit on board the helicopter burst into flames, forcing it to make that lading about nine miles outside of Mosul. They say, however, that, in the initial reports at least, there were no reports of fire from the ground when the Apache took that fire in the auxiliary power unit. And in Baghdad today, the Governing Council announcing that it will form a War Crimes Tribunal that could in fact try Saddam Hussein in absentia for his crimes. Other person who may face more immediate trial could be Chemical Ali, Ali Hassan Al-Majeed, who is to believed to have been responsible for the chemical attacks on the Kurds that killed at least 5,000 Kurds back in 1988 -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: All right, Nic Robertson, live from Baghdad. Thank you.
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