General Shabalkin's statement said helicopters had attacked a group of fighters in the hills.
Not five minutes after they picked him up from the palace, Iraqi helicopters and ground troops attacked the building.
But it said that as the helicopter attacked, American ground troops took fire from the bunker.
After the Iraqis began using the helicopters to attack the Shiites, no action was taken by the West.
According to the rebels, the loyalist forces used heavy weapons and helicopters to attack them one kilometre from the airport.
She was hiding with her husband and her 5-year-old son in a back room, when a helicopter attacked.
After they leave the house a helicopter attacks the town.
The helicopters first attacked the border post, named "Volcano", atop the mountain peak.
On the other hand, he said, even if the ship had been laying mines, which it certainly hadn't, the helicopter should not have attacked it.
Many of the defenders had scattered into the forest when the helicopter attacked.